Molly_Pitcher

Molly Pitcher > *Molly Pitcher* Molly Pitcher was born on October 13, 1754 near Trenton NJ. where she grew up on her parents dairy farm. She later married John Hays. John enlisted in the Colonial Army in December of 1775. He fought in the Battle of Monmouth on June 28, 1778. She went along with him to carry supplies, to tend to the wounded and to sew. She even heaved a crippled continental soldier on her strong young back and carried him out of the reach of hard-charging British soldiers. Most importantly she carried pitchers of water to the parched throats of the continental soldiers. On one particular day at Monmouth it was as hot as Valley Forge was cold. Her striped skirt fluttered across the bullet-swept ground at Mommoth as she brought pitchers of drinking water to her husband, an artilleryman, and to other comrades in the midst of the Battle of Mommoth. That is how she earned her name “Molly Pitcher.” She also used the water to cool down the hot guns and the cannons one of which her husband was in charge of on the battlefield. On one of her trips out to the battle field with water she found her artilleryman husband, battle, wounded, water, one, out, monmouth, molly, fire, continental, soldiers, sergeant, pitchers, pitcher, officer, mommoth, mary, later, hot, hays, ground, even, died, carried, cannon, artilleryman, army, john, young, years, women, widely, while, watching, washinton