Monday, August 18, 2008

Monument to a Heroine.

New York, 1895

A tablet to the memory of Mrs. Frances Ledyard Peters, the heroine of Fort Griswold, Conn., where her uncle, Colonel William Ledyard and his noble comrades in arms were massacred during the Revolutionary war, was unveiled Monday in the graveyard of the First Presbyterian church at Southold, with impressive ceremonies.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 21, 1895, p. 1.

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