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Excerpt from The American Spy, or Freedom's Early Sacrifice: A Tale of the Revolution, Founded Upon Fact The American Revolution brought out upon the stage of action many men of distinction and worth, who are, as yet, but little known to the general reader; not a few of whom were gallant sons of New England. Or this number was the hero named in the following pages, whose real character is here by no means overdrawn. A desire to interest young readers in the early history of the country, and at the same time do justice, in some degree, to the ennobling virtues of a brave man, has prompted the writing of the fol lowing tale, s. Greater proportion of which will be found not doing violence to truth than it h usual to meet with in pictures to which imagination has lent its assistance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.