Virtual Trivia

Question 5: Midnight Ride

April 5, 2020

This bronze statue by Anna Hyatt Huntington, located on the shores of Lake Gleneida in Carmel, NY, commemorates Sybil and her ride. Smaller versions are outside the Danbury Library, and at the headquarters for the Daughters of the American Revolution.

This 16-year-old rode through the night--and twice the distance of Paul Revere--to alert the Patriot militia to the British raid on Danbury.

Sybil Ludington

Sybil Ludington was born on this day, April 5, 1761. She was the oldest of 12 children born to Col. Henry and Abigail Ludington. The Ludington family operated a grist mill near Kent, NY. She rode out to muster the men of the Dutchess County militia, who were under her father's command, a distance of 40 miles.
Sybil's story went untold until a local historian, Martha Lamb, included it in her 1880 book, History of the City of New York.