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L4B1-H33

pid: L4B1-H33 imageURL: https://tree-portraits-pgp.familysearchcdn.org/7fju8/thumb200s.jpg url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Ludington name: Sybil Ludington gender: Female desc: "Sybil or Sibbell Ludington April 5, 1761 – February 26, 1839 was an alleged heroine of the American Revolutionary War, though modern scholars dispute this. On April 26, 1777, at age 16, Ludington, the daughter of a colonel in the Colonial militia, Henry Ludington, is said to have made an all-night horseback ride 40 miles 64\_km to rally militia forces in neighboring towns after the burning of Danbury, Connecticut, by British forces."