Molly Pitcher's Life

Mary MacKillop was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on January the 15th 1842. She was the first child to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Mary was one child out of 8 and spent most of her childhood years looking after and acting like a second mother to her siblings. The MacKillop family were quite poor so at the young age of 14, Mary got herself a job as a governess and as teacher at a Portland school. All the money Mary earned went towards her families everyday living. While working as a governess, Mary met Father Julian Tension Woods. By the time Mary had reached the age of 15 she had decided that she wanted to be a nun. She also wanted to devote her life to the poor and less fortunate. So upon meeting Father Julian Tension Woods she

While living in Lancaster, Massachusetts, a large group of Indians attacked, as well as burned the town. Mary and her three children were captured along with twenty one others on February 10, 1676 in the midst of King Philip's war. During this time, her husband was gone to Boston to ask the Massachussetts General Assembly for military protection against the indians. Her daughter Sarah, who was six at the time, was fatally wounded a week later and eventually died. While she was imprisoned, Mary travelled around one hundred and fifty miles. The captives traveled as

Molly Pitcher wasn’t your average lady she was brave, she joined the army, and Molly wasn’t really Molly. Her real name was Mary Ludwig . Molly was born on october 13, 1764, in New Jersey.

Mary Musgrove was born in 1700 in Georgia, and was a member of the Cherokee. She was a colonial American translator and negotiator for English and Yamacraw ancestry. She facilitated in the development of Colonial Georgia and became an important negotiator between the Muscogee Creek Indians and the English colonists. These two distinct societies caused Musgrove to bridge the gap between them, ultimately causing her to become a cultural mediator, who not only translated but advised those who acknowledged her capabilities and hardships. After many years of attempting to unite two diverse worlds, she died in her sleep in 1767. Mary Musgrove is known as an individual hero by Native American society because of her attempts to create a life that merged both cultures and for fighting for

Mary Ludwig was born circa October 13, 1754, near the town of Trenton New Jersey. Later in life she moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she met her soon to be husband William (John) Hays. He was a local barber, but later enlisted in the army as a gunner in the Continental Army. At the time, it was common

Mary Ludwig was born on October 13, 1754 near Trenton, New Jersey. Mary was uneducated (spending money to educate a boy rather than a girl was believed to be a better investment). Her father was a dairy farmer. In 1768, she moved to Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where she met William Hays, a local barber. They married on July 24, 1769. When the American Revolution began, he enlisted as a gunner in the Pennsylvania Artillery. His wife, Mary Ludwig Hays, was also present. She

Archibald, Mary’s father, died when she was two years old. Mary attended a small catholic school in Alexandria Virginia called The Academy for Young Ladies. The school left a great impact on Mary and she remained a devout catholic and southern sympathizer. At the age of seventeen, she married John Harrison Surratt; they settled on land John had inherited from his family in Neales, Maryland. They had a very unhealthy relationship from early on; they both had different religious views and John became an abusive alcoholic. Mary and John had three children, Elizabeth, Anna, and John Junior Surratt. Both Anna and John played very key roles throughout Mary’s trial and

Her real name was Harriet Beecher Stowe. Born as a salve on June 14, 1820 on a plantation in Maryland. There were 8 children in her family and she was the sixth. When she was five, her Mother died. Her Father remarried one year later and in time had three more children. Her Father always wanted her to be a boy. When Harriet was only 13 years old, she tried to stop a person from being whipped and went between the two people. The white man hit her in the head with a shovel and she blacked out. From then on she had awful migraines and would sometimes just collapse on the ground while she was working. She served as a field hand and house servant on a Maryland plantation. In 1844 she married John Tubman, who was a free

She had a somewhat major role in the Revolutionary War. While her husband was in Paris,

Molly Pitcher was a legendary figure in history, her status was presented to her in the Revolutionary War, where she courageously took over the job of her unconscious husband. Pitcher was born in a small town near Trenton, New Jersey on October 13, 1744. It is likely that she never attended school or learned to read, as education was considered a waste of money on young girls at this time. She then moved to Pennsylvania when she was just a young teen and married William Hayes. In 1778 her husband, WIlliam Hayes, had to join the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and while he was firing the cannon in the battle of Monmouth, Courthouse on July 12, he collapsed of 100 degree heat or he was wounded, it's still unknown, so she took over

Mary Ellen Wilson was born in 1864 to Francis and Thomas Wilson of New York City. Soon thereafter, Thomas died, and his widow took a job. No longer able to stay at home and care for her infant daughter, Francis boarded Mary Ellen (a common practice at the time) with a woman named Mary Score. As Francis’s economic situation deteriorated, she slipped further into poverty, falling behind in payments for and missing visits with her daughter. As a result, Mary Score turned two-year-old Mary Ellen over to the city’s Department of Charities (National Network for Child Care.)

Mary Ann Cotton was born October 31 1832 and died on March 24 1873. She was England’s first female murderer as her murders reached the front cover of every single news stand in Britain. She is best known for killing three of her four husbands, apparently in order to collect on their insurance policies. Overall she killed and poisoned 21 people in total ,including eleven of her thirteen children. Moreover, she grew up in the City of Sunderland, Endlnad. At the age of 8 her parents moved the entire family to the County Durham village of Murton. While in school, she was extremely lonely and did not make any friends. Right after the move, her father fell to his death down a mine shaft. After her father’s death, her mother remarried to George Stott. Mary found it difficult to get along with him and at the age of 16 she eventually moved out to become a nurse.After three years studying to become a nurse, Mary’s dreams fell apart as she returned home to live with her mother and eventually became a dressmaker.

Since Mary became active at Hale House, a settlement house established in Boston by Edward Everett Hale. At the Hale House’s National History Club, Mary met Amadeus William Grabau, a geologist and doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mary and Amadeus married and moved to New York in 1901. Amadeus was the son of a Lutheran priest, and later in life Mary would suffer social alienation for marrying a non-Jewish man. Mary enrolled in Barnard College and later in the Teacher’s College, but never finished her degree. She named her only daughter after Josephine Lazarus, who encouraged her to begin her literary career in earnest by writing about her experiences as an immigrant in America. Mary published "Malinka’s Atonement,"

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." That quote was one that Lucille Ball lived by throughout her twisted and turbulent life. As one of the most recognized faces in the world, she is known to millions simply as Lucy. She went from waitress and salesgirl to model to Goldwyn Girl to radio clown to an unlikely leading lady in a ground-breaking sitcom that is still seen in regular syndicated reruns more than 40 years after the series ended. Beyond being a television legend, she was the first woman president of a major Hollywood studio—a studio she co-founded. This is the life and times of Lucille Ball.

Mary Rowlandson was born in the south of England in 1637 and passed away in 1711. Rowlandson originated to this country in 1639 when her father, John White, became a wealthy land owner. She became a very busy lady when she married Joseph Rowlandson, because not only did she become a mother to three children, she also became a minister’s wife. She made her Puritan religion well known through her works of writing. Rowlandson seemed to support her husband with his ministry throughout the time she was married to him. While being married to Joseph, Mary and