Laura secord history biography timeline

Biography of Laura Secord. Heritage Minute on Laura Secord. 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.

Laura secord early life

In the American War of Independence, Ingersoll fought on the rebel side, but in he immigrated to Upper Canada where he had obtained a township grant for settlement. 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 , Laura married James Secord, a young merchant of Queenston.

James and Laura Secord were to have six daughters and one son. They lived first at St Davids but soon settled in Queenston. Early in the War of , James, a sergeant in the 1st Lincoln militia, was wounded in the battle of Queenston Heights and was rescued from the battlefield by his wife. The following summer, when neither side had a firm hold of the Niagara peninsula, Laura heard on 21 June , probably by listening to the conversation of some American officers dining at her house, that the Americans intended to surprise the British outpost at Beaver Dams and capture the officer in charge, Lieutenant James F itz Gibbon.