a Revolutionary War descendant (Kristy Fumante) with pertinent inherited artifacts and the author, Bernadine Fawcett's presentation of the letters scanned in her book MISSING LINKS TO THE CULPER SPY RING? at the DAR meeting on 4-21-07 at the Rayham Hall on 20 West Main St Oyster Bay. (Closed to the public)
Bernadine Fawcett’s newly published book, “MISSING LINKS TO THE CULPER SPY RING? is a Personal Event Historical footnote.
The intimate letters of Reverend A. Eliot written in 1777-1778 explores the hearts and minds of citizens during the Revolutionary War era. Divulged is new evidence of the cabal against George Washington, the citizens plights of starvation, disease, and death, the outcry to end the war, and the beginnings of slavery dissent, while the home front keeps women in their place and infants made docile by methods that CPS today would jail the parent.
Spying on the spies as you read the family letters allows a mystery to evolve. Solve the degree of participation which Long Island and Connecticut co-conspired to bring freedom to all of us right up to our day thorough the Culper Spy Ring organized by Long Island’s Benjamin Tallmadge.
The authors of Savannah: Brokers, Bankers and Bay Lane: Inside the Slave Trade (Civil War Savannah), received the 2012 Award for Excellence in Research from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board. The Award was issued by then Georgia Secretary
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