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This Women’s History Month we’re kicking off with the story of a Revolutionary War heroine whom you might not have heard of before.

Sybil Ludington is known today as the “female Paul Revere” and while her actions were equally heroic, she was largely forgotten until just over a century after her own midnight ride took place. That was until the first account of her legendary actions were documented by Martha J.

Lamb in her 1880 book, History of the City of New York.

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Sybil Ludington was born on April 5, 1761 as the first of twelve children to Henry and Abigail Ludington in Fredericksburg, New York (a town known today as Kent).

Her father, Colonel Henry Ludington, had served the in the British military for over sixty years but at the time of the American Revolution he had switched sides to the Patriot cause. When the Revolutionary War began, the Ludington family lived in Dutchess County (today known as Putnam County) and Colo