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          Heritage Minute on Laura Secord

           

          INGERSOLL, LAURA (Secord), heroine; b.

          13 Sept. 1775 in Great Barrington, Mass., eldest daughter of Thomas Ingersoll and Elizabeth Dewey; d. 17 Oct. 1868, at Chippawa (Niagara Falls, Ont.).

                When Laura Ingersoll was eight, her mother died, leaving four little girls.

          Her father remarried twice and had a large family by his third wife. In the American War of Independence, Ingersoll fought on the rebel side, but in 1795 he immigrated to Upper Canada where he had obtained a township grant for settlement.

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          His farm became the site of the modern town of Ingersoll. He ran a tavern at Queenston until his township (Oxford-upon-the-Thames) was surveyed. Within two years, about 1797, Laura married James Secord, a young merchant of Queenston.

          He was the youngest son of a loyalist officer of Butler’s Rangers,