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'''Hercules Mulligan''' (September 25, 1740{{spaced ndash}}March 4, 1825) was an Irish-American [[tailor]] and [[spy]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]]. He was a member of the [[Sons of Liberty]].
==Early life==
Born in [[Coleraine]] in the north of [[Ireland]] to Hugh and Sarah Mulligan, Hercules Mulligan immigrated with his family to North America in 1746, settling in [[New York City]], where he was raised from the age of six. Mulligan attended King's College, now [[Columbia University]], in New York City.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bleyer |first=Bill |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W-goEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22hercules+mulligan%22+%22king%27s+college%22&pg=PT83 |title=George Washington's Long Island: A History and Tour Guide |date=2021-06-14 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=978-1-4396-7252-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Randall |first=Willard Sterne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2Ie3gYY8HacC&dq=%22hercules+mulligan%22+%22king%27s+college%22&pg=PT50 |title=Alexander Hamilton: A Life |date=2010-07-06 |publisher=Harper Collins |isbn=978-0-06-201532-7 |language=en}}</ref> After graduating, Mulligan worked as a clerk for his father's accounting business. He later went on to open a tailoring and [[haberdashery]] business, catering to wealthy officers of the [[British Crown]] forces.
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==
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