The Collection is housed in the East Hampton Library. Pennypacker's findings were confirmed by forensic handwriting expert, Albert S. Frank Knox Morton Pennypacker (18721956) was a collector of Long Island, New York historical material and author of several books on Long Island history, including George Washington's Spies, the story of the Culper Ring. Pennypacker did so by identifying an exact match in penmanship between the Culper letters attributed to Culper Junior and letters written by Robert Townsend. previous 1 2 next sort by previous 1 2 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. She divides her time between Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Florida. Sara Pennypacker Average rating 4.01 111,984 ratings 12,944 reviews shelved 238,526 times Showing 30 distinct works. He discovered that 'Samuel Culper, Junior,' the head spy of the Culper Ring, was Robert Townsend, a member of the renowned New York Townsend family. Sara Pennypacker is the author of the 1 New York Times bestselling Pax the awardwinning Clementine series and its spinoff series, Waylon and the acclaimed novels Summer of the Gypsy Moths and Here in the Real World. īorn in Pennsylvania, Pennypacker moved to New York City a little after the turn of the 20th century before moving to Southampton, New York on Long Island.Ī writer and publicist by trade, he made a private hobby of collecting historical materials related to Long Island which eventually amounted to what is today called the Long Island Collection (formerly known as the Morton Pennypacker Long Island Collection), which contains some 20,000 odd books, papers, manuscripts, pictures, and other documents pertaining to the history of Long Island. Sara Pennypacker, author of Pax, shares the two central topics she aimed to explore with her moving book, and the importance of encouraging kids empathy.

Frank Knox Morton Pennypacker (1872–1956) was a collector of Long Island, New York historical material and author of several books on Long Island history, including George Washington's Spies, the story of the Culper Ring.

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