Enoch Crosby

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Espionage and Cryptography, Historic Sites, Memorials, Patriots December 15, 2020 December 14, 2020

Ten Graves of Patriot Spies

by Damien Cregeau

Spies. They lived in the shadows playing a very dangerous, life-or-death game while they served in various roles of espionage for the patriot cause…

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Espionage and Cryptography, Memoir, Pension Records, People October 24, 2019 October 23, 2019

Enoch Crosby: A Hudson Valley Spy in Fact and Fiction

by Charles Dewey

James Fenimore Cooper published his wildly popular second novel, The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground, in 1821. The book tells the story…

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1. Stuart Manson The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

He was, however, the fellow who was killed at the Battle of Stone Arabia (Mohawk Valley area), October 19, 1780, by a Loyalist-British-Indigenous raiding party under Sir John Johnson.
2. John Concannon The Unimportance of John Brown’s Raid on Ticonderoga

Thank you for this informative article. As a point of clarification, this article by Michael Barbieri refers to Col. John Brown, someone not to be confused with the John Brown…
3. Christian McBurney The Great New York Fire of 1776

A model book review Gene well done. Benjamin in his book discusses the possibility that Washington secretly ordered the fires but the author prudently does not go overboard on the…