Sybil Ludington's Midnight Ride

  
  Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere's midnight ride, but very few have ever heard of a young girl named Sybil Ludington. Sybil's midnight ride was probably the more impressive of the two.
     Late one April night in 1777, there was a loud knock on the door of the Ludington house. There was a price put on Col. Henry Ludington's head placed by the British, so they were worried it was someone trying to capture him. However, it was a courier from Danbury. When Col. Ludington opened the door for the exhausted man he found out that the British had set fire to the town of Danbury.
     Col. Ludington needed someone to go warn the other towns and tell the Militia to join up at his house. But the courier was to tired to go on such a run. Without hesitation his daughter stepped up to take the challenge. Sybil was as comfortable on a horse as she was on her own two feet so she was confident she would succeed. By the time the night was over Sybil had rode over forty miles, and when she got home there roughly 400 men at her fathers house. They were all there because of Sybil Ludington

Essay Questions

Why was the location of the First Continental Congress so important? What did Carpenter's Hall represent to the delegates?


     Carpenter's Hall was the town hall of Philadelphia. The colonial leaders chose Philadelphia because at the time it was the biggest and most comfortable city in America. It provided the colonial leaders a welcoming place to go and if it was to be a lengthy process they were in the perfect city for an extended stay. Carpenter Hall represented a meeting house where the leaders could come together, sit down, have conversations, and make decisions.

First to Defy, First to Die

      This story is about a man named Crispus. He was born in 1723 when there was a big demand for slaves. His father was Prince Yonger, but even he couldn't escape the slave trade. So Prince Yonger was shipped to the new world. He worked for a man named Colonel Buckminster. While working there he found wife, he name was Nancy Attucks. Their son was name Crispus.
      Crispus hated being labeled as someone elses property and he always dreamed of being free. Crispus was sold to Deacon William Brown. After ten years working for Deacon William Brown, Crispus had a chance to be a harpoonist on a whaling ship. He decided not to return to his master.
       As Crispus was hiding in Boston when he heard a commotion, he rushed over. It was the start of the Boston Massacre. Crispus ended up at the front crowd. He heard the cry of "FIRE" He felt a pain in his chest. And he died. Crispus was the first man to die in the Boston Massacre.