Robert Townsend
BIRTH
Nov 25, 1753
Oyster Bay, New York
DEATH
March 7, 1838
Oyster Bay, New York
FAMILY
FATHER:
Samuel Townshend
(1717-1790)
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Townsend, Robert
(1753-1838)
Robert Townsend was a New York merchant and Patriot spy who operated under the alias Samuel Culper Jr. As a key member of the Culper Spy Ring, he gathered intelligence in British-occupied New York for George Washington's headquarters.
HOMES:
MUSEUM
Raynham Hall Museum
30 W Main St, Oyster Bay, NY 11771
GRAVE:
MARKER
Grave of Robert Townsend-Culper Jr
Tooker Avenue, Oyster Bay, New York, 11771, USA
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Raynham Hall Museum | 30 W Main St, Oyster Bay, NY 11771 | MUSEUM | ||
Grave of Robert Townsend-Culper Jr | Tooker Avenue, Oyster Bay, New York, 11771, USA | MARKER |
DIED:
Oyster Bay, New York
Mar 7, 1838
Robert Townsend was born on Nov 25, 1753 in Oyster Bay, 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 Robert Townsend 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. Robert Townsend died on Mar 7, 1838 in Oyster Bay, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.