Culper Spy Ring

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Date: 1777 to 1783
Location: Manhattan, Long Island, NY

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George Washington's Revolutionary War Spy Ring.
Benjamin Tallmadge -- passed information to Washington from Culper Sr.

Members of the Culper ring:

Caleb Brewster
James Rivington
Austin Roe
Robert Townsend -- Culper Jr
Abraham Woodhull -- aka "Samuel Culper Sr", the central figure.
Agent 355 -- the only woman in the ring. see the reference to explore the candidates for the honor.

Sources

George Washington's Secret Six, 2013 Penguin, Kilmeade & Yeager, ISBN 978-0-698-13765-3

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Joan (Stone) Jakubowski

Agent 355 many assume it is Robert's sister Sarah, evidence leans to Elizabeth aka Liss, slave in Townsend household.

Include in your story, Colonel Abraham Gardiner 1720-1782, his wife Mary Smith , their slave Zell. Source : Historian Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks. On guard duty at hanging of Andre: Sgt of Guard Enoch Crosby, Private Jonathan Benton.