Quite a feat, I wonder though if she wasn’t like that all the time. :’)
She was the oldest of twelve children. (can you imagine that in the 1700s,twelve children serving child birth?) and a bright and assertive young woman. Her father who was a colonel in the militia had a man who was supposed to ride but he was ill with a fever and Sybil said “I’ll do it father’’. He protested but she insisted. “I know the road and who would stop a young girl?’’ She was right. Certainly if she had encountered any British troops they would have seen only a young girl on a horse. She could have made up any excuse and how would they know any different? Just an amazing young woman. She was one of so many who risked everything to give us the country we live in.