Laura Secord (née Ingersoll) was a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812. She is known as Canada's Paul Revere. Laura Ingersoll was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1775. Suffering the aftermath of the American Revolution, her father, Thomas Ingersoll, moved the family to the Canadas in 1795, and in 1797 she married the Loyalist James Secord, son of an officer of Butler's Rangers (the Ingersolls themselves were not Loyalists). Wikipedia
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INGERSOLL , LAURA ( Secord ), heroine; b. 13Sept.1775 in Great Barrington, Mass., eldest daughter of Thomas Ingersoll and Elizabeth Dewey; d.17Oct.1868, at Chippawa (Niagara Falls, Ont.). www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38629
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A few months later he sent Laura a hundred pounds in gold, the only financial reward she was ever to get, forty-eight years after her deed. www.galafilm.com/1812/e/people/secord_speach.html
Synopsis Most Canadians know the name of Laura Secord, although they may be a bit fuzzy on the subject of her heroic trek that saved the British and Canadian forces at the Battle of Beaver Dams during the War of 1812. www.histori.ca/minutes/minute.do?id=10118