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Digges, Thomas Attwood

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Digges, Thomas Attwood (1742–1821) revolutionary and spy, born in Warburton, Maryland. Digges spent much of his life abroad, passing on from London to American leaders political gossip, lists of American prisoners of war, and reports on activities in Parliament. He smuggled war supplies to America via Spain, and after the war smuggled artisans and machinery from Britain to America.

Digges was disowned by his family, imprisoned for debt in Dublin, arrested for shoplifting in Scotland, and active in Irish nationalist struggles, yet a personal friend of George Washington—one of the few invited to his funeral. Also a writer, his Adventures of Alonso (1775) is sometimes described as the first novel by an American.

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