Abraham Woodhull

The Culper Spy Ring.

Organized by Benjamin Talmadge in 1778, the ring included Abraham Woodhull, Samuel Culper Sr., and Robert Townsend, Samuel Culper Jr., Its tradecraft foreshadowed many modern espionage techniques.

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I love that aspect of it.

They start the series out really with Abraham Woodhull, who is, uh, uh, is Samuel Culper, and you kinda see how this, this whole network kind of builds up and gets started, uh, and really how important it became to...

You know, the- these are the things that I want to read the Alexander Rose book, and I haven't done it yet, and I need to.

Um, that ties into even Benedict Arnold and the discovery of his treachery, uh, as he was, uh, feeding information to the British.

So, Benjamin Talmadge now takes what he learned from Sackett, what was already put into place, and the foundations were already set for this, what becomes the Culper spy ring.

What is, I think, so cool about this? Three of the key figures here, Benjamin Talmadge, Caleb Brewster, and Abraham Woodhull, were high school buddies.

They went to high school.

It's not a high school like we think of, but they grew up in Setauket.

And Caleb Brewster was certainly an ordinary guy, kind of ran a whale boat and things and was a crazy outdoorsman.

And he kind of like, I think he became more military.

Abraham Woodhull.

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