Anna Strong

Yeah.

Anna Strong is sometimes being given the, you know, pointed to, the show kind of points to her as being potentially that person.

Uh, and she had her own little bit of, w- whether it's lore or true, I'm not sure, about her signaling, uh, boats with her sheets that she was putting out.

That one is truth, yeah.

George Washington was a number, 711.

And legend says one spy, Anna Strong, used her clothesline as a signal.

A black coat meant a spy boat had arrived, and the number of handkerchiefs next to it told which hidden cove to meet at Nobody knows for sure if that part is true, but it's one of the coolest spy stories ever told.

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According to the tradition handed down in Setauket, one of that ring's signals was laundry.

When a woman named Anna Strong hung a black petticoat on her clothesline, it meant the whaleboat courier, Caleb Brewster, had come in across the sound.

The handkerchiefs she hung beside it told the network which of six coves he was hiding in, out in the open, in plain view of British soldiers who saw a farm wife doing the wash and nothing more.

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Anna Strong's petticoat was a signal.

It told the right people that help was close.

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Anna Strong.

Anna Strong is one from the Culper

Ring.

And this was sort of how it could work, right? Is that the women were wearing very heavy clothing, multiple layers of clothing, and they had lots of places where they could slip notes online.

Brewster and Little weren't even like – they weren't meeting in person very much.

So Anna Strong had – I don't know if it was a home or whatever.

I think she might have run a tavern there in Setauket.

But she would – signal Brewster.

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Talmadge, Abraham Woodhull, Caleb Brewster.

Anna Strong.

Anna Strong.