{"id":988,"date":"2009-09-30T18:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=988"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:18:07","slug":"nathaniel-sackett-washingtons-spymaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=988","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Sackett, Washington&#8217;s spymaster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the more colorful characters in Sackett history is Nathaniel Sackett who was one of George Washington&#8217;s spymasters during the American Revolutionary War. Weygant&#8217;s <em>Sacketts of America<\/em> includes much detail on Nathaniel, including the text of the letter from Washington appointing Nathaniel to the service of his country.<br>More material is now available on the Internet at the Library of Congress and at the University of Virginia. Transcripts of a number of letters to and from Nathaniel have been added to The Sackett Family Association website. These give a fascinating insight into conditions during the war. The new material is included in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sackettfamily.info\/g0\/p180.htm#i5383\">biographical sketch<\/a> of Nathaniel which is included in the Notables section.<br>There is very likely more material to be had on this subject and others may wish to join in the hunt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more colorful characters in Sackett history is Nathaniel Sackett who was one of George Washington&#8217;s spymasters during&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brief-lives","category-history","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}