Hercules Mulligan
BIRTH
Sep 25, 1740
Coleraine, Ireland
DEATH
March 4, 1825
New York City, New York
FAMILY
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Mulligan, Hercules
(1740-1825)
Hercules Mulligan was a New York tailor and Patriot intelligence agent. Through his work for British officers, he gathered information about military plans and passed warnings through the Culper network that helped protect George Washington.
GRAVE:
MARKER
Grave of Hercules Mulligan
Rector Street, New York, New York, 10006, USA
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Hamilton Grange National Memorial | 414 W 141st St, New York, NY 10031 | MUSEUM | ||
Trinity Church | 89 Broadway, New York, NY 10006 | PARK | ||
Grave of Hercules Mulligan | Rector Street, New York, New York, 10006, USA | MARKER | ||
Bull's Head Tavern Marker | 20 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10013 | MARKER | ||
Black Horse Inn Marker | 5111 Canal St, New York, NY 10002 | MARKER |
DIED:
New York City, New York
Mar 4, 1825
Hercules Mulligan was born on Sep 25, 1740 in Coleraine, Ireland. 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 Hercules Mulligan with work or public activity as a spy, tailor. 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. Hercules Mulligan died on Mar 4, 1825 in New York City, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.