Ancestry of
Benjamin Tallmadge

Leader of the Culper Spy Ring during the American Revolution

Benjamin Tallmadge

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Tallmadge 
  • Mother:
  • Susannah Smith   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Feb 1754 
  • Birth Location:
  • Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Mar 1835 
  • Death Location:
  • Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • East Cemetery, Litchfield, Litchfield Co., Connecticut 
  • Notes: 

  • Commander of the Culper spy ring during the American Revolutionary War.

• Marriages for Benjamin Tallmadge

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  • Spouse:
  • Mary Floyd
  • Marriage Date:
  • 16 Mar 1784

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  • Spouse:
  • Maria Hallett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 May 1808

• Sources for Benjamin Tallmadge

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A040007 and #A112617.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/31/2014).
  • ³ New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1896, Vol. 27, p. 6.
  • ⁴ Hooker, Edward, The Descendants of Rev. Thomas Hooker, Hartford, Connecticut, 1586-1908, Rochester, New York: E. R. Andrews Printing Company (1909), 74.
  • ⁵ Kilmeade, Brian and Don Yaeger, George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution, New York: Sentinel, a member of Penguin Group (2013), 35, 211.
  • ⁶ Mackenzie, George Norbury, ed., Colonial Families of the United States of America, Vol. 5, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1995, originally published 1912), 179.
  • ⁷ Tallmadge, Benjamin, Memoir of Col. Benjamin Tallmadge, Prepared by Himself, at the Request of his Children, New York: Thomas Holman, Book and Job Printer (1858), 5.
  • ⁸ Whittemore, Henry, The Heroes of the American Revolution and their Descendants: Battle of Long Island, The Heroes of the Revolution Publishing Company (1897), 12-15.
  • ⁹ Wikipedia, "Benjamin Tallmadge", (accessed 03/31/2014).
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Culper Ring", (accessed 03/31/2014).