TURN Season 3: All Quiet on the History Front? All orders are custom made and most ship worldwide within 24 hours. It is speculated by Kilmeade and Yaeger that a young woman connected to a prominent Loyalist family, who was staying in the city with her Tory relations, may also be referred to as "355". With two classes or more the walking tour will be split between Abraham Woodhull and Anna Smith Strong, portraited by Donna Smith, Three Village Historical Society Education Director. Anna Smith Strong was born on … Brewster told Woodhull that his encounter with him in Connecticut was the first part of the test to see if Woodhull was fit to join the patriots, and Tallmadge's int… Thomas became a judge and fathered Selah B. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. This was a signal to chief spy Abraham Woodhull. One of Anna Strong’s neighbors, Abraham Woodhull, Was then recruited as Samuel Culper and began intelligence missions into New York undercover of visits to his sister Mary Underhill ran a boarding house on Queen Street. Abraham Woodhull was born to Richard Woodhull and Rebecca Woodhull (1728–1757). Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Anna accomplished this signaling by means of a homespun device that fooled all wisdom with its simplicity. ), So, in the TURN universe (which really does read like historical fanfiction, now that you mention it), both the TV show and TURN Origins comic (pictured below) claim that Abe and Anna, roughly the same age, grew up together as neighbors and best friends in the village of Setauket. Tallmadge's informants consisted of friends he made at school on Long Island, including Austin Roe, Caleb Brewster, Abraham Woodhull, and Anna Strong. As the lifelong friends cling to each other under the looming shadow of war, the last thing they expect is to find Abraham Woodhull in a hay barn with a proposition from Margaret’s erstwhile fiance: an insane, impossible plan of childhood friends forming an intelligence ring for the Continental Army. ( Log Out /  In the context of TURN, “shipping” is an especially appropriate term to use for Abraham Woodhull and Anna Smith Strong, because their forceful on-screen romance is completely lacking any basis whatsoever in historical fact. Though Woodhull was Tallmadge's chief agent, Robert Townsend was an important informant who posed as a Loyalist coffee-shop owner and merchant while working as a society journalist. She did this by hanging a black petticoat on her clothesline at Strong Point in Setauket, which was easily visible from a boat in the Sound, and also by Woodhull from his nearby farm. Abraham Woodhull was only ten years old at the time. They are both avid Loyalists, quite strange for Presbyterians. In fact, by the time the historical Culper Ring began its operations in 1778 (two years later than the fictional date of 1776 given in TURN), Anna had given birth to seven children, and would have yet one more before the war’s end. But even that simple description of their childhood background is misleading. ), Anna married Selah Strong, another Setauket native, in November of 1760, when she was 20 and he was a month away from his 23rd birthday. ( Log Out /  [8]:503 Anna's mother was Margaret Lloyd Smith, daughter of Henry Lloyd of Lloyd's Neck. It comprised several other agents, including Caleb Brewster, Austin Roe, Anna Strong, Hercules Mulligan, and Townsend’s paramour, known today only by her code name “355.” [15]:130–131, Selah Strong was on Washington's list to be reimbursed for expenses incurred in connection with activities for the Culper Ring. 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