Abraham Woodhull
BIRTH
Oct 7, 1750
Setauket, New York
DEATH
January 23, 1826
Setauket, New York
FAMILY
FATHER:
Richard Lawrence Woodhull, IV
(1712-1788)
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Woodhull, Abraham
(1750-1826)
Abraham Woodhull was a Long Island farmer and Patriot spy who operated under the name Samuel Culper Sr. He led the Culper Spy Ring's local intelligence work, gathering information from British-occupied New York for George Washington.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Setauket Village Green | Caroline Avenue, Town of Brookhaven, New York, 11733, USA | MARKER | ||
Abraham Woodhull Home Marker | 18 Dyke Road, Town of Brookhaven, New York, 11733, USA | MARKER |
DIED:
Setauket, New York
Jan 23, 1826
Abraham Woodhull was born on Oct 7, 1750 in Setauket, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Abraham Woodhull with work or public activity as a spy. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Abraham Woodhull died on Jan 23, 1826 in Setauket, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.