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=__**Molly Pitcher (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley)**__=

She grew up near Trenton, New Jersey. She's grew up and moved to Carlisle, Pennesylvania, and lived there until she died. Her first job when she moved to Carlisle was a servant.
==She was sixteen when she married a barber named William Hays. When her husband decided to go fight in the whar, she decided to go with him. In the Battle of Monmouth which took place on July 28th,1778, soldiers were falling left and right because of the heat. When the temperatures got really high, she carried pitchers of water to the soldiers, and that is how she got her name.== ==When her husband and other men became wounded, she helped take care of them. When her husband couldn't fight any longer in the Battle of Monmouth, she took over his place at the cannon. After the Battle, General Washington found out about her heroic actions. He eventually named her Sergeant Molly. She was raised on a farm as a heavy set, strong, and hard working girl. She could do all the tasks and chores a small farm requires to be done. There was an old Revoulutionary ryhme that describes her:==

A sergeant did become, sir.
==In 1789, William Hays died. After the death of her first husband, she lived at the Carlisle Barracks, cooking and washing for the soldiers for many years. Molly then remarried a war veteran named George McCauley. They settled in Carlisle, where Mary went back to work as a domestic in the State House in Carlisle. Mary McCauley was known familiarly in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she lived for the rest of her life, as Molly Pitcher. She lived on the corner of North and Bedford streets in a house which since has been demolished. In 1822, Molly was rewarded fourty dollars and an annual commision of the same amount during her lifetime. On January 22nd, 1852 Molly died in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was buried in the old Carlisle cemetery with military honors—a company of soldiers firing a salute. On the Fourth of July, 1876, the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the citizens of Carlisle bought a white marble monument inscribed to “Molly Pitcher, the heroine of Monmouth,” Now you can visit her grave site in Carlisle, Pennesylavnia. A flag and cannon stand by her tombstone. Her life was a long one and very happily lived.==