Mr. Lord,  Saw your request for information on the revlist:

According to tradition, word reached Sybil Ludington's father on the night of
April 26, 1777 that the British were burning Danbury CT (25 miles away and a
short distance from the NY line. ) The volunteer militia in the vicinity of
the Ludington house at Fredericksburg, NY (the name of the hamlet was later
changed to Ludington) were scattered over a wide area.

She passed down through Carmel, passing the spot where her statue now stands,
going on to Mahopac Falls to Kent Cliffs over Barrett Hill, Farmer's Mills,
through Pecksville and back home through Stormville.  The men who gathered at
Col. Ludington's in response to her call reached Ridgefield in time to help
drive the British back to their ships.

150 years after the event a chapter of DAR placed markers along her route in
Putnam County, NY.  In 1961 her statue by sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington was
erected on Route 52 beside Gleneida Lake in Carmel.  There is a miniature of
that statue in Washington DC in Memorial Continental Hall the headquarters
building of the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.

Sybil Ludington, age 16, rode all night without dismounting, a distance of 40
miles on roads that were narrow and unmarked.  Paul Revere, an experienced
professional courier rode less than 14 miles over good roads in two hours with
a stop for supper.

With warm regard
Barbara M Delorey
State Historian
Massachusetts Daughters of the American Revolution