Remember Liss: A New American Founding Figure
Wednesday, November 4, 2026 · 6:00 PM EST · Boardman Road Branch Library · Poughkeepsie, NY
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Join historian and author Claire Bellerjeau for a one-hour program as she discusses the discovery of a new founding figure named Elizabeth, or Liss. Liss was enslaved by the Townsend family of Oyster Bay, New York, whose most famous member was Robert Townsend, aka “Culper, Jr.," George Washington's lead spy in Manhattan during the Revolutionary War. As Robert and Liss’s story unfolds, prominent figures and events cross their paths, including George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilt
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