by Brad Meltzer
didn’t even know there was a Culper Ring until the 1930s: See Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002) 17–18; also, Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger, George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution (New York: Penguin Group, 2013), xvi–xvii.
“inquiring into, detecting and defeating”: From Minutes of the Committee and of the First Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York (New York: New-York Historical Society Collections), 2.
“America’s first counterintelligence chief”: The title is applied to Jay on the CIA’s own website. P.K. Rose, “The Founding Fathers of American Intelligence,” https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/books-and-monographs/the-founding-fathers-of-american-intelligence/art-1.html#john-jay-america-s.
conference room named after Jay: From Matthew H. Williamson, “The Networks of John Jay, 1745–1801: A Historical Network Analysis Experiment” (PhD diss: Northeastern University, 2017), 105.
he gives Jay first choice of any position: John Brown Scott, “John Jay, First Chief Justice of the United States,” Columbia Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 5 (May 1906), 311.
Washington wrote a letter to his wife: GW to Martha Washington, 18 June 1775, PGWR, 1: 3–6.
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Index
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Adams, Abigail
Adams, John
anti-slavery views of
in Continental Congress
Declaration of Independence role of
Adams, Samuel
African Americans, in Continental Army
Alamance, Battle of (North Carolina)
alcohol consumption
Alexander, William (aka “Lord Stirling”)
Anglican Church
Asia (British warship)
Axtell, William
Bangs, Isaac
Barbados
Barnes, John
investigation of
Bassett, Burwell
battle
of Alamance (pre-Revolution)
of Brooklyn
of Bunker Hill
of Lexington and Concord
of Long Island
of New York City
Beck, Mrs. (Loyalist)
Benjamin, William
biological warfare
Bland, Humphrey
“bloody flux.” See dysentery
Booth, John Wilkes
Boston, Massachusetts
British occupation of
Bunker Hill, Battle of, in
Continental Forces at
espionage plots in
Lexington and Concord, Battle of, near
“shot heard ’round the world” in
smallpox outbreak in
Braddock, Edward
Breed’s Hill, Boston
Brooklyn. See also Long Island
Battle of
as part of Long Island
Bunker Hill, Boston
Battle of
Campbell, John
Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Church, Benjamin
Church, Fleming
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency
City Watch, New York City
Clarke, William
Clinton, Henry
Cold Spring Harbor counterfeiting scheme, Long Island
College of New Jersey (later Princeton University)
Columbia University. See King’s College
Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies. See also Committee on Conspiracies/Intestine Enemies
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sp; Committee of Fifty, New York
Committee of Fifty-One, New York
Committee of Inspection, Connecticut
Committee of One Hundred, New York
Committee on Conspiracies/Intestine Enemies
contemporary intelligence influenced by
espionage investigations by
expansion of
formation of
goals/mission statement of
members of
powers afforded to
renaming of
Committees of Correspondence
Committees of Safety
Common Sense (Paine)
Connecticut
in Continental Congress
Loyalists in
Provincial Congress of
shilling from
“Conquer or Die” motto (Life Guards)
conspiracy, first. See conspiracy plot against George Washington and the Continental army
conspiracy plot against George Washington and the Continental army. See also espionage; investigation of assassination conspiracy
Benjamin’s role in
cast of characters, summary of
Farley’s role in
fictional depictions of
Forbes’s role in
Green’s role in
Hickey’s role in
Jay’s investigation of
Ketcham’s role in exposing
Leary’s role in exposing
Life Guards’ participation in
Livingston’s investigation of
Mason’s role in
Mathews’s role in
Morris’s investigation of
punishments related to
Smith’s role in
Tryon’s role in
Constitutional Gazette
Constitution of the United States
Continental Army. See also conspiracy plot against George Washington and the Continental army; Revolutionary War; Washington, George
African Americans’ service in
alcohol consumption by
Battle of Brooklyn by
Battle of Lexington and Concord preceding
Battle of Long Island by
Battle of New York City by
Boston’s liberation by
court-martials in
disease/illness within
executions in
formation/organization of
