The Cato who aided Hercules Mulligan might have been a man enslaved by the powerful Schuyler family. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Images via Trinity Church Archives, the Internet Archive and ...
According to popular lore, Hercules Mulligan—tailor, spy and ardent patriot of Hamilton fame—was working at his Manhattan shop on a frigid night in 1779 when a British officer bustled in, looking for ...