Question

This person’s stories of serving as a spymaster during the Revolutionary War are thought to have inspired James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this “Founding Father of American counterintelligence,” who is more famous for being Chief Justice during cases like Chisholm v. Georgia and negotiating a namesake 1794 treaty with Great Britain.
ANSWER: John Jay
[10h] Cooper was likely inspired by Jay’s stories of Enoch Crosby, who used this profession as his cover. George Hewes’s unexpected role in the war is explored in Alfred Young’s social history titled for this profession “and the Tea Party.”
ANSWER: shoemaker [or cobbler; accept The Shoemaker and the Tea Party]
[10m] John Jay’s brother, James Jay, is often credited with inventing this “sympathetic” technology, for which he used oak gall. A version of this technology based on phenolphthalein was developed during WWII.
ANSWER: invisible ink [prompt on ink]
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