[Pharmboy]

She made her daddy proud...

[AuntB]

Thanks for posting this. I had never heard this story. There is so much in US history to learn!

[Pharmboy]

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[NonValueAdded]

There is a statue in Carmel, NY, sculpted by Anna Hyatt Huntington and presented to the Enoch Crosby Chapter NSDAR.

Sybil rode a 40 mile route as shown below in a map by Fred C. Warner.

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[Vigilanteman]

At least she got a postage stamp, back in 1975. Great story!

[ironwill]

About the author at the end of this article:
Peter Cliffe, a retired corporate administrator, lives in Hertfordshire, England. He became interested in the Civil War while working with a multinational firm in this country.

You'd think they'd know the difference between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War?

Nice story. I'm sure there were many more unsung heroes and heroines in this war that are only known to God.

[a fool in paradise]

Paul Revere was also a colonial cartoonist who drew works critical of the British empire.

It wasn’t just about a midnight ride.

[RegulatorCountry]

Sounds remarkably like 16 year old Betsy Dowdy’s 50 mile ride across Currituck in North Carolina, on her wiry little Banks pony, Black Bess, to which she sang to encourage her to keep going. December, 1775.

[Dead Corpse]

She makes us all proud.

Alarm and Muster.

[Larry Lucido]

Very good story.

And this line:

worse, the countryside was infested by lawless men who would show no mercy to a girl who was traveling alone

should be sobering for those who think lawlessness and depravity just started after 1962 or so, and who pine for bucolic "good old days."

[woollyone]

Had the Sloshington Compost published this article it would have dutifully reminded everyone that these early patriots were actually terrorists.

[Mr Rogers]

Good story. Thanks for the post.

I’d like to remind folks of how dark it gets away from our modern cities - she wasn’t riding on a well lit bridle path!

[wildbill]

Somehow the image of a girl riding around in the dark calling, “The British are coming.” must have caused more than a few chuckles among the farmers.

[blam]

"She made her daddy proud... "

As well as her ancestors.

Sybil is recognized here on the Ludington Ancestry site.

[the OlLine Rebel]

LOL, this is 1 of the things I’ll never forget for some reason from my childhood.

I guess it was 5th grade when we had 1 of those stories in the “reading” books to do.

It was “Sybil’s Ride”.

I don’t recall the story details, but bottom line it was about a girl named Sybil who went off to warn people about the British, and it was either NY or CT.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I always find it ironic and insulting when Dem-type people cite RevWar references (or any Founding).

For the Dems, it would be something like, “heroically fighting for everyone to get money for nothing”.