Anna Smith Strong (1740-1812) who was part of George Washington's Setauket Spy Ring, and her husband Captain Selah Strong, a patriot captured by the British during the American Revolution. Among other things, Anna Smith Strong was renowned for negotiating her husband's release from a British Prison Ship. The conditions on those ships were terrible. Anna arranged to have her husband transferred to a Connecticut prison.

Their grandson Selah Brewster Strong (11792-1872) was A Democratic congressman and State Supreme Court Justice. He built St. Georges Manor in the 1840's. All three of them are buried in St. George's Manor Cemetery.