The detached & Debilitated state of the Garrison of West
Point--Insured success to the assailants--the enemy were all in
perfect readiness for the Enterprise--& the discovery of the
treason only prevented an Immediate attempt by open force to
carry those works which _perfidy_ would have effected the fall
of, by a slower & less sanguine mode.--Our army was out of
protecting distance the troops in the possession of the Works a
spiritless Miserabile Vulgus--in whose hands the fate of America
seemed suspended in this Situation his Excellency (in imitation
of Caesar & his tenth legion) called for his Veterans--the
summons arrived at one o'clock in the morning & we took up our
line of March at 2.

HUGH A. SHEEL TO GENERAL WAYNE.

PHILA Oct. 22, 1780

_My dear General_

... the character you gave me in confidence of Arnold _several
months_ ago made a strong impression on my mind it has been
verified fully--his villany & machinations never could have been
carried on but through the medium of his Tory acquaintance in
this place....

APPENDIX.

A very valuable map of the Province of New York, by Claude Joseph
Sauthier, drawn for Major-general William Tryon in 1779, is found in
"The Documentary History of New York," showing the Mohawk Valley
grants, old forts, etc.

_Fort Paris_, Dec. 19, 1776, Captain Christian Getman's Rangers, Tryon
County militia, were stationed at Stone Arabia, and were ordered, when
not ranging, to cut timber for building a fort, under direction of
Isaac Paris, Esq. (Mr. Paris was in Provincial Congress and later in
State Senate.) It was a palisaded enclosure of stone and block-houses
for a garrison of from two to three hundred (200-300) men. Begun in
December, 1776, it was completed in the spring of 1777. It was
situated on a most beautiful plain three or four miles north-east of
Fort Plain, one-half a mile north of Stone Arabia churches, twelve
(12) rods from the road. North of it water would run into the
Sacondaga, and thence into upper waters of the Hudson; south into
Mohawk waters. It is easily reached from Palatine Bridge, and is
nearly one thousand feet above sea-level. In the fall of 1779, Colonel
Fred. Fisher (Visscher), of Third Regiment, Tryon County militia, was
at Fort Paris.

May 12, 1780, Colonel Jacob Klock, Second Regi