Every good fandom needs an honorary ’i know the end’ edit that’s just how it works. Please go ahead and direct all hate to @tallmadgeandtea it was her idea I am guiltless (kidding ofc). I fear I will be getting jail time for this and having my editing privileges revoked. But I simply had to do what must be done.
Please watch until the end. I spent my entire spring break working on this and nearly caused my phone to overheat.
Alright, guys! I got another awesome discovery to post (courtesy of my cousin...again)!
My cousin stayed at the Three Village Inn in Stony Brook. We actually drove past it in 2017 when I visited Setauket, but I never went inside. So my cousin just recently was staying there and sent me pics...the cottages are all named after members of the Culper Spy Ring!!!
She made sure to send me a pic of the Tallmadge cottages sign XD
But anyway, I thought this was too cute NOT to share. I want to stay here so badly! The pictures on Google of the place are beautiful! Have any of you fine Tumblr folk stayed here before?
In loving and honorable memory of Nathan Hale, American patriot, son, brother, friend, schoolmaster, and spy, who was hanged on this date, 1776, at the age of twenty-one, and whose body lies buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Manhattan.
I recently finished writing an essay about James Rivington in the Culper Ring for the Daughters of The American Revolution essay contest! Hopefully they like my essay! I can post updates on how far it gets in the competition. I won't be publishing it since it is an official national academic contest.
Rivington is SO underrated. TURN may have entirely skipped on the past about him being a spy or his legitimate friendship with Robert Townsend but from what I've read his personality is spot on. He's so silly I love him!
I appreciate it even more that there's evidence of he and Washington having a little secret alliance. I just imagine them talking
Rivington: Haha remember that time I told everyone you died?
Washington: *sob* Everyone was mailing me letters for weeks after asking if I was ok!
I wish there was even more evidence on Rivington! All of his publishings are so spread out across tons of libraries and universities that I can't read them!
Fun fact: RIVINGTON PUBLISHED "THE BRITISH LIGHT INFANTRY" SONG!!!! THANK YOU SIR, I LOVE IT!!!!
I'm super excited to announce that I sold a new book, SPY RING, my first ever contemporary middle-grade novel, to my wonderful editor Anne Hoppe at Clarion Books, via my amazing agent Andrea Somberg! It's about two modern-day kids on a treasure-hunt adventure inspired by real-life Revolutionary War hero Anna Smith Strong, America's first female spy!
“She was an American Patriot and may have been one of the only female members of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution. Her perceived main contribution in the ring was to relay signals to a courier who ran smuggling and military missions for General George Washington.”
A little while ago I did this semester-long project focusing on the culper ring which had me trying to find primary sources that would be useful. One of the sources that I found was a letter from Charles Scott to George Washington and it's actually the funniest thing I found during the entire research part.
In the letter, Scott says that he forwarded a letter to Washington from a man named John Bolton, who was recommended to him by Benjamin Tallmadge… I’m sure you can see the irony here.
National Archives (where I found it) goes on to say that Scott more than likely meant to use the name Samuel Culper, but it’s actually way more funny he used Tallmadge’s alias instead. Just imagine Tallmadge indirectly hyping himself up to Scott like “this guy’s so smart you can totally trust him” as he’s just referring to himself.