Austin Roe
BIRTH
Mar 2, 1748
Port Jefferson, New York
DEATH
November 28, 1830
Patchogue, New York
FAMILY
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Roe, Austin
(1748-1830)
Austin Roe was a Long Island tavern keeper and Patriot courier for the Culper Spy Ring. He carried concealed messages between Robert Townsend in British-occupied New York and the ring's contacts on Long Island.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Roe Tavern Marker | 325 Main St, Setauket- East Setauket, NY 11733 | MARKER |
DIED:
Patchogue, New York
Nov 28, 1830
Austin Roe was born on Mar 2, 1748 in Port Jefferson, 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 Austin Roe 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. Austin Roe died on Nov 28, 1830 in Patchogue, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.