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Sybil Ludington: Unsung Heroine of the American Revolutionary War
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Randell Jones
Guest columnist
After several years in the late 1760s of bitter discourse, protest and, eventually, riots against egregious mistreatment by appointed officials, the farmers on North Carolinaâs frontier continued to petition the royal governor and assembly for relief. These âRegulatorsâ called for a better regulation of government. The entrenched powers that be were put off by these backcountry ârabbleâ and passed the Johnston Riot Act, enabling the government to declare Regulators as outlaws and to confiscate property. Indeed, Royal Gov. William Tryon convinced the council to approve his marching the provincial militia in the spring of 1771 into the backcountry to dominate these citizens.
Randell Jones
Guest columnist
During May and June, we observe and learn from the 250th anniversary of formative events to Americaâs nation-building efforts preceding the Declaration of Independence by five years. Although independent-Americaâs civic virtues would become âlibertyâ and âequality,â these colonial events, internal to North Carolina as the War of the Regulation, reveal our Tarheel forebears confronting prevalent and persisting attitudes of superiority and class entitlement and a hard conviction that âmight makes right.â That problematic thinking still haunts us today from civic bastions it should least infect. As Walt Kellyâs Pogo said, âWe have met the enemy and he is us.â
Ludington was the daughter of Henry Ludington, a New York militia officer and later an aide to Gen. George Washington. According to accounts generally attributed to the Ludington family and first published more than 100 years later, on April 26, 1777, a messenger reached the Ludington house with news of Gov. William Tryon’s attack on Danbury, Connecticut, some 15 miles (25 km) to the southeast, where the munitions and stores for the militia of the entire region were stored. Colonel Ludington began immediately to organize the local militia. Whether Sybil volunteered (as is often recounted) or was directed by her father to bear the order for muster and to rouse the countryside is a matter of uncertainty. (The classic account of the event, an article written in 1907 by Ludington’s great-nephew Connecticut historian Louis S. Patrick, says her father “bade her to take a horse, ride for the men, and tell them to be at his house by daybreak.”) In either case, through the night the
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