On this day in 1814, Elisabeth Crowe Kenny died aged 78. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, in the Journals: https://bit.ly/kenny1814
#OnThisDay in #history - in 1609, Judith Leijster was baptized in the #Netherlands - the daughter of a brewer, she likely started art lessons to help pay for her family's needs. By 1629, she'd painted her first known/signed work and by 1633 she was a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke (possibly the first woman member!). Well-respected by her contemporaries, she saw success in her lifetime, but she was forgotten, her works attributed to someone else, until 1893. #OTD#histodons@histodons
#OnThisDay in #history, as legend has it, in 1777, Sybil Ludington (age 16 at the time) rode for 40 miles from her home in Fredricksburg, NY through Putnam County to alert her father, Colonel Henry Ludington, and others along the way that the British invading army had burned down nearby Danbury, Connecticut.
Though historians may question the veracity of the tale (as is our wont), it is still a good story and has its place in popular understandings of the Revolution.