Founded over 300 years ago, the town of Oyster Bay on Long Island in New York has a colorful history, stretching from the Matinecock Indians who gave way to Dutch and English settlers, through the Revolutionary War when Robert Townsend served Washington as the spy, Culper Jr., to its glory years when Sagamore Hill served as Theodore Roosevelt's summer White House.
An Oyster Bay Cove couple who are supporters of the [Raynham Hall] museum situated in the Townsend house recently donated two letters written by [Revolutionary War spy Robert] Townsend [aka Culper Jr.] enclosed in a signed first-edition copy of a book about Washington's spies written by Long Island historian Morton Pennypacker. The letters have notes in the margins written by Pennypacker. They were acquired in an online auction.
Read the story in Newsday.
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