...which he had gathered from his military associates, including Major David S. Franks, former aide-de-camp to Arnold, Colonel John Lamb, Major General Samuel H. Parsons, and Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson Harrison, secretary to Washington. Varick presented evidence that he was neither implicated in Arnold’s treason nor was he “an agent in, or conniving with Mr. Arnold’s abuse of power...
2To George Washington from Lieutenant Colonel Richard Varick, 24 October 1780 (Washington Papers)
The letter from GW’s secretary Robert Hanson Harrison to Varick dated 19 Oct. has not been identified, but see n.5 below.Varick wrote GW’s aide-de-camp Alexander Hamilton from Beverly Robinson’s house on this date: “I am to beg you, to be so obliging, as to send me your deposition, by the first conveyance, of what my conduct was, or appeared to...