Molly Pitcher
by Rodney

 Molly Pitcher was born in Trenton New Jersey in 1754 and died in 1832. She married john Caspar Hays when she was a teenager. When she was 16 years old she followed her husband when he went off to fight in the Revolutionary War. She cooked and washed for the soldiers in their camps. In battle she carried pitchers of water for the fighting soldiers and that's how Molly got her name ''Molly Pitcher ''. At the battle of Monmouth, New Jersey on June 28, 1778, her husband got sick from fighting in the war and Molly took his place at his cannon and kept the gun firing for the remainder of the battle.

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