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Abraham Woodhull's code name was "Samuel Culper, Sr".

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Abraham Woodhull depicted by Jamie Bell in "Turn"

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Woodhull Married Mary Smith in 1781, and had three children with her.

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Abraham Woodhull was born in 1750 in Setauket, a town on Long Island, New York.

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Before he was a spy, Woodhull served as a magistrate, as had his father before him.

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After suspecting him, the British went to his house to arrest him in Setauket. But he luckly was not at home.

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After the war ended in December 1783, Woodhull stayed in Setauket. After the United States gained independence, Woodhull served as a magistrate, as had his father before him, and served as a judge in Suffolk County, New York. He had three children with his wife Mary, lived prosperously as a judge, and died in 1826. Woodhull never spoke of his spying activities to anyone. But he probably never forgot that day in 1778 when he came very close to being hanged.

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Woodhull had been caught smuggling contraband across Long Island Sound, and Tallmadge spoke with Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull and got him released. Tallmadge then set up a spy network in New York, with Woodhull as the lead agent.

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A farmer and the son of a local Patriot judge, Abraham Woodhull joined the Culper ring in November of 1778. Woodhull was essentially the leader of the Culper Spy Ring, deciding what information was transmitted throughout the group, which would eventually make its way to George Washington.

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Woodhull used this technique in his years of espionage. A dead drop is where information is indirectly exchanged in a secret spot.

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These were some of the books Woodhull owned and some of the things he wrote in them 

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Woodhull's role in the Spy Ring was collecting intelligence on British military and more communication methods.