User:Pete Mcloughlin/new article name here Caleb Brewster
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Caleb Brewster A Revolutionary War member of the Culper Spy Ring. Born in Brookhaven Long Island. Settled in Black Rock (now Bridgeport) Connecticut and worked as a Blacksmith.<Black Rock: A Bicentennial Picture Book, Publisher Black Rock Civic and Busines Men's Club,November 1976>. In 1778 George Washington organized the The Espionage Service Brewster was recruited into the Culper Spy Ring. Robert Townsend of New York directed the ring. Brewster Carried information on British activity from John Talmadge of Long Island across Long Island Sound to Connecticut en route to Washington's Headquarters in upstate New York during the war. When the ring disbanded after the war Brewster returned to ordinary life. A Street in Bridgeport,CT is named in his honor.
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