Facts about Molly Pitcher
Molly Pitcher's fame began two years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the American Colonies.
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Molly Pitcher is generally identified as the Irish immigrant woman Mary Hayes McCauley (or Mary Ludwig Hays, who supposedly married John Casper Hays before she married William Hayes).
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Some of these details may have been borrowed from the actions of the other leading candidate for the "real" Molly Pitcher, a woman named Margaret Corbin.
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