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

LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Reading edition

OFFICERS

President B. Herbert Smith

First Vice-President Guy Du Val

Second Vice-President William H. Cary

Corresponding Secretary Norman Taylor

Recording Secretary Richards M. Cahoone

Treasurer John D. Talmage

Assistant Treasurer Guy Du Val

Librarian Miss Edna Huntington

DIRECTORS

Joseph Dana Allen, Litt.D.

Hon. George E. Brower

Richards M. Cahoone

William H. Cary

Francis D. Dodge, Ph.D.

Guy Du Val

Rev. Phillips Packer Elliott

Lewis W. Francis

George Hewlett

David H. Lanman

A. Augustus Low

Evelyn Pierrepont Luquer

D. Irving Mead

Walter M. Meserole

Hon. Howard Pervear Nash

Frederic C. Paffard, M.D.

William A. Robbins

Arnold W. Sherman

B. Herbert Smith

John D. Talmage

Norman Taylor

Edwin H. Thatcher

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

B. Herbert Smith, Chairman

Joseph Dana Allen

Richards M. Cahoone

William H. Cary

Guy Du Val

Lewis W. Francis

William A. Robbins

John D. Talmage

Norman Taylor

COUNCILORS

Kings County

Miss Jessie A. Addoms, J.D.

Mrs. Samuel K. Frost

Rev. John H. Lathrop, D.D.

Lester D. Mapes

Frank L. Van Cleef

Wheeler N. Voorhees

Nassau County

George D. A. Combes

Courtney R. Hall, Ph.D.

Henry Hicks

Jesse Merritt

Rt. Rev. Ernest M. Stires, D.D.

Suffolk County

Mrs. J. D. Cockcroft

Perry Duryea

Ralph G. Duvall

Morton Pennypacker

Wallace Reid

Mrs. Joseph H. Willets

Queens County

William G. Clossen

Arthur White

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

Painted by John Ward Dunsmore. (Used by permission of the Title Guarantee & Trust Co.)

GENERAL WASHINGTON’S COUNCIL OF WAR AFTER THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND

In the Philip Livingston house, later known as the Teunis Joralemon House, east side of Hicks St., Brooklyn.

In the picture are General Washington, Samuel Parsons, Joseph Spencer, Thomas Mifflin, John Morin Scott, Alexander McDougall, Israel Putnam, Peleg Wadsworth and John Fellows.

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

BY MORTON PENNYPACKER

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK Published by the Long Island Historical Society PIERREPONT STREET CORNER CLINTON STREET 1939

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