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Paul Revere” Was a Girl Child Soldier Killed by Stray Bullet • Richest Woman in New York Lewis Latimer’S Legacy of Inventions • Rochester Builds a Subway 29 Volume 6 • Number 4 SPRING 2007 $4.95 New York’s “Paul Revere” Was a Girl Child Soldier Killed by Stray Bullet • Richest Woman in New York Lewis Latimer’s Legacy of Inventions • Rochester Builds a Subway 29 BY V.T. DACQUINO Like Paul Revere, Sybil Ludington of New York, landed at Fredricksburgh in New York Compo Beach in Connecticut (part of which is now known became a hero of the Revolution after with 2,000 British troops from as Ludingtonville, in the town twenty transports and six of Kent, Putnam County) to a daring night ride on horseback that warships. Tryon marched across bring 400 more men. Connecticut to Danbury to I found a further account warned Americans of a British attack. destroy supplies and munitions of the incident by Willis that had been stored there Fletcher Johnson in his book But Sybil’s life in New York after her by the American rebels. Colonel Henry Ludington: A Within hours of his arrival, Memoir, published in 1907: ride was lost to history––until now. and upon consuming barrels “At eight or nine o’clock of rum, Tryon’s drunken that evening a jaded horseman soldiers went on a rampage, reached Colonel Ludington’s first heard of Sybil burning homes and killing home with the news…But Ludington in 1997, via several Danbury residents. what to do? His regiment one of those yellow When word of the raid got was disbanded; its members and blue historic markers out, American soldiers rushed scattered at their homes, that dot New York’s to settle the score. The many at considerable distances. highways: “Sybil Americans sent out warning [It was April, planting season, ILudington rode horseback messengers in every direction, and the farmers needed to over this road the night of as Generals David Wooster tend their fields and had April 26, 1777, to call out and Benedict Arnold, receiving been granted leaves to get Colonel Ludington’s regiment intelligence at New Haven, their work done.] He must to repel the British at Danbury, gathered escorts and moved stay there to muster all who Connecticut.” But just who westward, picking up various came in. The messenger from was this heroic woman? I militia companies along the Danbury could ride no more, began by reviewing some basic way. Meanwhile, General Gold and there was no neighbor facts in my local library. Selleck Silliman was en route to within call. In this emergency Sybil Ludington was just Danbury with 500 militiamen, he turned to his daughter sixteen years old in April of and Colonel Henry Ludington, Sybil, who, a few days before, Background: Statue of 1777 when General William several miles to the north, had passed her sixteenth DACQUINO V.T. Sybil Ludington Tryon, formerly Royal Governor was summoned from birthday, and bade her to www.nysarchives.org 30 A Prospective Biography peculiar item was one I was immediately taken by paragraph that appeared at Sybil’s story. Paul Revere, the end of each article: in his forties, had traveled “After her famous ride, twelve miles to warn of a Sybil Ludington lived to be British invasion, but sixteen- seventy-seven years old. year-old Sybil had ridden She married her childhood more than forty miles. Paul sweetheart, Edmond [or COLLECTION PRIVATE Revere rode through populated Edward, or Henry; the first DACQUINO Boston on a clear night, but name varied with the article] V.T. Sybil rode through woods Ogden, who was a lawyer Historical marker in Patterson, take a horse, ride for the and brush over mud-laden in Catskill, New York. Sybil New York. men, and tell them to be at paths. Paul Revere had two bore six children: four boys his house by daybreak. One helpers, while Sybil had none. and two girls. One of her who even rides now from Paul Revere was captured— children was a hero in Kansas. Carmel to Cold Spring will but Sybil wasn’t. There were The family later moved to find rugged and dangerous great differences in their Unadilla, where Sybil died on February 26, 1839.” There was little or roads, with lonely stretches… stories and their reasons for But the child performed her riding, but it seemed that The paragraph was inter- no biographical task…as she rode through Sybil had earned her own esting enough, but it hardly the night, bearing the news place in history, and I set out covered more than sixty years information on of the sack of Danbury… to write her biography. of a hero’s life. I realized that the way to begin my research Sybil’s life after her By daybreak, thanks to her I thought the research daring, nearly the whole would simply involve gather- famous ride. There regiment was mustered ing the necessary documents before her father’s house from the many archives and were countless at Fredricksburgh, and an repositories in New York. I articles, but most hour or two later was on picked out a favorite chair at the march for vengeance on the Putnam County Historian’s of them contained the raiders…That night they Office in Brewster—and then reached Redding, and discovered that there was information about joined Arnold, Wooster, and little or no biographical her father (the Silliman. The next morning information on Sybil’s life they encountered the British after her famous ride. There colonel) and the at Ridgefield…and made were countless articles, but [the British] retreat to their most of them contained Revolution. ships at Compo resemble a information about her father rout…Arnold had his horse (the colonel) and the shot from under him as, Revolution, and just repeated almost alone, he furiously the same information about was with the six Ogden charged the enemy, and the her own ride. Articles from children. But there were no gallant Wooster received a the 1930s to the late 1990s graves to be found, nor any wound from which he died told of the markers erected in medical, school, birth, or a few days later. There were 1935 along the route of her death records. In fact, there far greater operations in ride, a statue of her dedicated was no mention of their Right: A grist mill built by Colonel the war than this, but there by Anna Hyatt Huntington names in any history books, Henry Ludington in Fredricksburgh, was scarcely one more in 1961, and a United States newspapers, or archives. now Kent, Putnam County, about expeditious, intrepid and commemorative postage stamp As for Sybil’s husband, he not the time of the Revolution. successful.” issued in 1975—but the most only did not have a grave; NEW YORK archives • SPRING 2007 31 A 1975 commemorative postage stamp honored Sybil Ludington as a “relatively unknown” hero of the American Revolution. my book, Sybil Ludington: hero of Fort Riley, Kansas. THE ARCHIVES The Call to Arms, the first Sybil applied for a pension from CONNECTION birth-to-death account of the the United States government young female hero that is on September 8, 1838, lthough I used a documented by primary source and provided proof that her wide variety of sources research. And it corrects that husband Edmond had served A for my research, these erroneous paragraph that had three terms of military service New York sources provided been repeated for years. during the Revolution; one “breakthroughs” when I After her famous ride in of those terms was with John there was also no record of needed them most: the 1777, Sybil Ludington remained Paul Jones on the Bonhomme his law practice in Catskill. National Archives, North- a member of her mother’s Richard. But her pension was A trace of Sybil’s “son” in eastern Region, in New household until she was denied because she produced Kansas was also confusing: York City; the Yorktown twenty-three years old. At that “insufficient proof of Edmund Augustus Ogden, Family History Center of the time she met Edmond Ogden, marriage.” Sybil Ludington hero of Fort Riley, Kansas, Church of Latter-Day Saints whose family had recently Ogden died in poverty on who had remained with in Yorktown Heights; and moved to New York. They February 26, 1839, and was women and children stricken Mabel Parker Smith, Greene married in 1784, and Sybil gave buried with her parents with cholera at the cost of his County Historian, at the birth to a child in 1786. They behind the Presbyterian own life, was a graduate of Greene County Historical sold the land they lived on in Church in Patterson, Putnam West Point, and his mother’s Society in Coxsackie. Fredricksburgh, New York in County, New York. ■ name was Julia, not Sybil. April 1793. On August 23, Breakthrough 1793, Edmond signed a school subscription, donating money After these disappointments, to a school his son attended I spent three frustrating years in Catskill, New York. He doing research in Washington, donated money again in D.C., as well as in Albany, 1795. By 1799, Edmond was Catskill, and Unadilla, New dead from yellow fever, and York and in countless libraries his body was cremated. and archives. Very quickly I gained respect for New York’s In 1803, widow Sybil Ogden archivists and historians. But bought a tavern on the PUTNAM COUNTY HISTORIAN’S OFFICE the answers to Sybil’s puzzle corner of Green and Main began to emerge, with a line Streets in Catskill. She assisted here and a document there. A her son in becoming an breakthrough came with my attorney. Six years after she discovery of a series of articles purchased the property, she written by Mabel Parker Smith, sold it for over three times a historian from Catskill.
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