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| death_date = {{death date and age |1825|3|4|1740|9|25|mf=yes}}
| death_place = [[New York City]], U.S.
| spouse = {{marriage|Elizabeth Sanders Mulligan|October 27, 1773}}
| children = 3 sons, 5 daughters
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On October 27, 1773, Mulligan<ref>{{cite news|last1=Mulraney|first1=Frances|title=Hercules Mulligan - the Irish-born tailor and spy who saved Washington twice|url=http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/hercules-mulligan-the-irish-born-tailor-and-spy-who-saved-washington-twice|access-date=21 September 2016|work=IrishCentral.com|date=20 July 2016}}</ref> married Elizabeth Sanders at [[Trinity Church (Manhattan)|Trinity Church]], established by the [[Church of England]]. Sanders was the niece of [[Admiral (Royal Navy)|Admiral]] [[Charles Saunders (Royal Navy officer)|Charles Sanders]] of the British [[Royal Navy]]. The couple had eight children: five daughters and three sons.<ref>{{cite book|last1=O'Brien|first1=Michael J.|title=In old New York : the Irish dead in Trinity and St. Paul's churchyards|date=1997|publisher=Clearfield|location=Baltimore, Md.|isbn=0806347090}}</ref>
Mulligan was introduced to [[Alexander Hamilton]] shortly after Hamilton arrived in New York by Mulligan's brother, Hugh, and took him on as a lodger. Mulligan also knew the Crugers, Hamilton's patrons for whom he had clerked in [[St. Croix]], and helped Hamilton sell their cargo that was to be used for his education and upkeep.<ref name="Brookhiser">{{cite book|last1=Brookhiser|first1=Richard|author-link=Richard Brookhiser|title=Alexander Hamilton, American|date=2000|publisher=Simon & Schuster|location=New York|isbn=0684863316|page=21,26|edition=1st Touchstone}}</ref> Mulligan helped Hamilton enroll at the Elizabethtown Academy [[grammar school]] in New Jersey to prepare for the College of New Jersey (now [[Princeton University]]), where he placed Hamilton under the wing of [[William Livingston]], a prominent local American revolutionary, with whom Hamilton lived for a while. Hamilton eventually enrolled at [[Columbia University|King's College]] instead, Mulligan's ''alma mater'' in New York City. Mulligan had a profound impact on Hamilton's desire for revolution.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Misencik|first1=Paul R.|title=The original American spies : seven covert agents of the Revolutionary War|date=2013|isbn=978-1476612911|pages=95–98|publisher=McFarland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AnpkAgAAQBAJ|access-date=6 February 2016}}</ref>
==Involvement in the American Revolution==
While staying with the Mulligan family, [[Alexander Hamilton]] came to share Mulligan's views. As a result, Hamilton wrote an essay in 1775 in favor of independence.{{cn|date=October 2022}} When Washington spoke of his need for reliable information from within New York City in 1776, after the [[Continental Army]] was driven out, Hamilton (who was then an officer on Washington's staff) recommended Mulligan due to his placement as tailor to British soldiers and officers.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qMtQAQAAMAAJ&q=Hamilton+Washington|title=Hercules Mulligan, Confidential Correspondent of General Washington|last=O'Brien|first=Michael Joseph|date=1937-01-01|publisher=P. J. Kenedy & Sons|edition=1st|page=89|language=en}}</ref>
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