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Elizabeth Burgin Heroine of the Revolutionary Escape
Elizabeth Burgin aided prisoners on British ships in Wallabout Bay during 1779 and helped free about 200 captives. Rumors tie her to the Culper Ring and Washington correspondence. she fled Long Island, sought aid in Philadelphia, and received a lifetime pension from Congress before likely dying in Philadelphia.
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Elizabeth Burgin
New York
Brooklyn
New York Harbor
Wallabout Bay
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Culper
George Washington
Burgin
U.S
Washington
Benjamin Tallmadge
General Washington
Tallmadge
George Higday
Higday
Long Island
William Sheriddon
New England
Philadelphia
Board of War
Elizabeth Town
Elizabeth
New Jersey
Congress