Women / Persons ~ P09259

Molly Pitcher

Alternate Names:

Mary Ludwig Hayes
Mary Ludwig Hays
Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley
Moll Pitcher

Gender: Female

Life Dates: 13 October 1744- 22 January 1832

Types:

American (US)
Legendary
Military
Role in revolution

Note: Supposedly based on an actual person, Mary Ludwig Hays, but also considered a composite figure for women who carried water to American Revolutionary soldiers.

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Biographies (8 Total)

Famous for Martial Bravery Author: Katherine A. O'Keefe O'Mahoney . Collection Title: Famous Irishwomen. 1907
Heroic Conduct at Monmouth Author: . Collection Title: Noble Deeds of American Women: With Biographical Sketches of Some of the More Prominent. 1851
Mary Hays (Molly Pitcher) 1744-1832, Girl at the Gun Author: John Laffin . Collection Title: Women in Battle. 1967
Molly Pitcher Author: Lena C. Ahlers . Collection Title: Daughters Known to Fame. 1932
Molly Pitcher Author: William Oliver Stevens . Collection Title: Famous women of America. 1950
Molly Pitcher (1750-1823): A Heroine of the American Revolution Author: Mrs. Clyde Robertson . Collection Title: Fifty Famous Women. 1936
Molly Pitcher: the Brave Gunner of the Battle of Monmouth Author: Kate Dickinson Sweetser . Collection Title: Ten American Girls From History. 1917
Patriot Women of the Revolution Author: William Worthington Fowler . Collection Title: Woman on the American Frontier: A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the “Pioneer Mothers of the Republic”. . 1876