Enoch Crosby Alias Harvey Birch

The Spy Unmasked, or Memoirs of Enoch Crosby, alias Harvey Birch (Google version), "the hero of Mr. Cooper's take of the Neutral Ground..." was dedicated to James Fenimore Cooper.

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"Enoch Crosby was a native of Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, on 4 January 1750.  As a child he moved to Dutchess County (later Putnam), New York, and grew up in a family of 'staunch Whigs.'"

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