Woodhull
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Abraham Woodhull (1750–1826) · Setauket, New York
Woodhull takes its name from Abraham Woodhull, the Long Island farmer who served as the principal agent of the Culper Spy Ring — George Washington's most effective intelligence network during the American Revolutionary War.
Operating under the cover name “Samuel Culper, Sr.,” Woodhull gathered observations on British troop movements in occupied New York and relayed them to Washington through a chain of couriers, dead drops, and a numerical code devised by Benjamin Tallmadge. His tradecraft — source protection, secure communication, and disciplined reporting — anticipates the analytical workflow this platform trains today.
No verified portrait of Abraham Woodhull is known to survive; the image shown is a page from the Culper Ring's own code book.