Anna married Selah Strong (December 25, 1737 – July 4, 1815) who was related to General Nathaniel Woodhull and Abraham Woodhull through his mother Hannah. Abraham was the "Samuel Culper" of the Culper Ring of American spies during the American Revolution.[3]:173 Selah was a delegate to the first three provincial congresses in colonial New York which convened on May 22, 1775, December 6, 1775, and May 1776.[4]:466 He also was a captain in the New York militia in 1776.[3]:83, 173 He was imprisoned in the sugar house at New York City as a presumed spy, according to Rivington's Gazette of January 3, 1778.[5]:582 Family tradition has him later imprisoned on the prison ship HMS Jersey,[5]:582 Later works mention only his imprisonment on the prison ship,[6]:124 and that tradition claims that Anna brought him food.[7]:529 Author Ryan Ann Hunter states that Anna eventually got Selah paroled through the influence of Tory relatives.[8]:41 Upon his release, he spent the rest of the war in Connecticut with the family's younger children while Anna stayed on Long Island.[8]:41