NARROWSBURG, NY — On Saturday, September 2, Fort Delaware’s Bold Gold Media Speaker Series concludes for the season with a program on Robert Land, Revolutionary War spy for the British, …
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NARROWSBURG, NY — On Saturday, September 2, Fort Delaware’s Bold Gold Media Speaker Series concludes for the season with a program on Robert Land, Revolutionary War spy for the British, at 2 p.m. at the fort.
The price of “The Cushetunk Spy: The Enigmatic Life of Robert Land,” is included in the price of admission to Fort Delaware.
It is presented by Sullivan County Historian John Conway.
Land was the justice of the peace in the Cushetunk settlement before the Revolutionary War; then he carried dispatches as a courier and spy for the British army, according a press release.
Land was rescued from the gallows by Gen. Washington himself; returned to spying; lost track of his family; moved to Hamilton, ON; found his family again and much more, according to the United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada at uelac.ca.
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