When I was in High School, I took an English class that focused on Women in History. I thought it was a good time to have some caches related to powerful and or influential women.
ANNA SMITH STRONG: The Culper Ring
PER WIKI: Continental Army Major Benjamin Tallmadge began working with Abraham Woodhull in the summer of 1778 at the height of the American Revolutionary War to create what became known as the Culper spy ring. According to tradition, Anna Strong's role in the ring was to relay signals to a courier who ran a whaleboat across Long Island Sound on smuggling and military missions. She did this by hanging a black petticoat on her clothesline at Strong Point in Setauket, which was easily visible from a boat in the Sound, and also by Woodhull from his nearby farm.[6]:124[9]:217[10]:38[11]:83 She would add a number of handkerchiefs for one of six coves where the courier would bring his boat and Woodhull would meet him.[7]:172
:42[12]:21 [13] Historian Richard Welch writes that the tradition of the clothesline signal is unverifiable, but it is known that the British suspected a woman at Setauket who fit Anna's profile.[14]:37 Conversely, authors Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger suggest that she was an unlikely candidate to be the woman member of the Culper Ring. They claim that British law provided for lands to be confiscated if left abandoned, and they speculate that this forced Anna to remain on Long Island when her husband left for Connecticut. They further state that she had her children with her and her arrest would have left them parentless.
Woodhull wrote a message to Tallmadge to say that he would be visiting New York again and, "by the assistance of a [lady] of my acquaintance, shall be able to outwit them all."[3]:173 Several historians surmise that Anna Strong was the lady identified as "a 355" (Tallmadge's code for the word "lady").[3]:173[7]:529[16]:189 She might have had her own reason to visit New York to visit her husband aboard the prison ship where he was confined and to bring him food.[3]:173[7]:529 If she was the one referred to, her main service on their trips would have been to divert attention from Woodhull.[3]:173 Selah Strong was on Washington's list to be reimbursed for expenses incurred in connection with activities for the Culper Ring. Rose and Phelps speculate that the reimbursement must have been for expenses incurred by Anna, since Selah was imprisoned for much of the relevant time period.[3]:265[7]:529
No information has been found concerning Anna's activities after the end of the war other than that she and Selah lived quietly in Setauket for the rest of their lives.[3]:277 She died on August 12, 1812.
All the information needed to solve the puzzle is on this page.
FINAL IS N 43° 22.AAA W 072° 06.BBB
AAA The number of hankerchiefs on the line identified which cove to take the boat?
TRUE = 672
FALSE = 276
BBB= Anna Strong was the lady identified as "a 355" (Tallmadge's code for the word "lady
TRUE 454
FALSE 545