pandemic, and now as vaccines become more widely available, we are reporting on how our local schools, businesses and communities are returning to a more "normal" future. There's never been more of a need for the kind of local, independent and unbiased journalism that The Day produces. Please support our work by subscribing today. Tossing Lines: Colonel William Ledyard’s one book Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard's probate record, filed in 1782 by his wife Anne, lists only one book, circled here. (Photo submitted) Published May 13. 2021 9:00AM John Steward, Special to The Times Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde declared “You are what you read.” If that is so, I have discovered a clue to the personality of southeastern Connecticut’s Revolutionary War hero Lt. Col. William Ledyard, opening the lock on history’s narrow infatuation with only his fatal skewering by the British in the Battle of Groton Heights in 1781.