Letters from Lord Stirling to the President of Congress, with intercepted Letters addressed to the Earl of Dartmouth

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Elizabethtown, January 6, 1776 — 12 o' clock.

SIR: After sealing the letters which Captain Morris will deliver you herewith, I found on the messenger some private letters to Mrs˙ Gage, which I have forwarded. The handwriting of one of them I knew to be from a most dangerous man; and, for very particular reasons, I was induced to open it. I now send it to you, and am your most humble servant,

STIRLING.

To the Honourable John Hancock, Esq.