Anyone interested in trying to trace the Benjamin Talmadge trail? Starts in Mt Sinai area (Boat landing site) winds down to Mastic (Manor of St George) back up to Coram (Burning of the Hay) and back to Mt Sinai. I dont mean walking it but trying to trace it with some accuracy. I am going to try and get out to the Manor this weekend before it closes for the season. If your interested.....
"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon."
You know Id love to go. (im off this weekend)
I have been wanting to do this for a while....count me in ...
The Manor of St. George
The War of 1812 defensive cannons
Was a nice day....
"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon."
Was a great day.......thanks guys!
(back view)
Great shots Rich.
Call me a liar, you knew.
You were a fool, but that's cool, it's all right.
Call me the Devil, it's true.
Some can't accept but I crept inside you.
Love the third one.
Anna Smith Strong (1740-1812) who was part of George Washington's Setauket Spy Ring, and her husband Captain Selah Strong, a patriot captured by the British during the American Revolution. Among other things, Anna Smith Strong was renowned for negotiating her husband's release from a British Prison Ship. The conditions on those ships were terrible. Anna arranged to have her husband transferred to a Connecticut prison.
Their grandson Selah Brewster Strong (11792-1872) was A Democratic congressman and State Supreme Court Justice. He built St. Georges Manor in the 1840's. All three of them are buried in St. George's Manor Cemetery.
Chapter 7, "Beat of Drum and Ringing of Bell": Women in the American
Revolution, page 190
"Most of these women spies acted on their own initiative, unable to resist or
to avoid the opportunity and what they saw as their obligation to sabotage the
enemy. But there were organized spy rings as well. The most elaborate of
these, the Culper Ring, was based in New York, where fighting in the first
year of war was fierce and the British occupation of the area was long. The
ring established itself in 1778 on the strategically located Long Island
Sound, which linked Connecticut and New York. At the center of the operation
was a Mrs. Anna Strong, whose property at Strong's Neck, Long Island, lay near
several inlets where supply boats from American-held Connecticut might land
and remain overnight undetected. Mrs. Strong acted as a signal woman,
employing the most mundane domestic chores to fulfill her assignments. When
the coast was clear of British patrols, she went to her clothesline and hung
her black petticoat along with an agreed-upon number of white handkerchiefs.
Although the head of the ring was a man, the majority of its operatives were
women, for they were better able to enter and leave occupied New York City
without raising suspicion. The domestic tenor of the Culper Ring
activities----its baskets of fruit and food carried to city relatives, its
laundry-line messages----belied the dangers of participation. In 1779 of the
women, known to us only by her code number, 355, was captured and imprisoned
in the British prison ship Jersey. Like most of the prisoners of war crammed
into the ship's hold, agent 355 did not survive. "
Has anyone heard of a marker by Rt 112 & middle country Rd for the spot the hay burned? Im gonna try and trace the route taken by Tallmadge during the raids and need to find these key locations, this being one of them.
"Well being as there's no other place around the place, I reckon this must be the place, I reckon."
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