General Washington's spies on Long Island and in New York

by Morton Pennypacker

EN·~10 hours·20 chapters

Chapters

20 total

Transcriber’s Notes

0:38

GENERAL WASHINGTON’S SPIES On Long Island and In New York

0:03

LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

2:20

PREFATORY NOTE TO “THE TWO SPIES, NATHAN HALE AND ROBERT TOWNSEND.”

3:58

ILLUSTRATIONS

3:13

FOREWORD

34:10

NATHAN HALE

21:01

GENERAL WASHINGTON’S SPIES

57:12

SECRET SERVICE SECRETS

1:18:12

TOWNSEND’S PERSONALITY

19:54

Description

"In this volume are now collected a majority of the letters still in existence from spies in the American service during the Revolutionary War."--Foreword, p. 17.

Details

Language

Duration

~10 hours (580K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Long Island Historical Society, 1939.

Credits

Tim Lindell, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

Release date

2023-02-24

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Career in espionage Spies -- New York (State) -- History -- 18th century Espionage -- New York (State) -- History -- 18th century United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Secret service New York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Secret service Long Island (N.Y.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 E201

About the author

Morton Pennypacker

1872–1956

Best remembered for bringing fresh attention to George Washington’s spy network, this Long Island historian and collector turned local archives into stories with real narrative pull. His work helped popularize the Culper Ring long before it became widely known to modern readers.

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