biography
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Corbin, Margaret
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née Cochran
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| female
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| lived:
| (1751–c.1800)
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| biography:
| American Revolution heroine, born in Franklin Co, Pennsylvania, USA. When she was five, her father was killed in an Indian raid in which her mother was taken captive, and she was raised by an uncle. Her husband, John Corbin, enlisted in the American Revolution, and she accompanied him as cook, laundress, and nurse for the troops. During the battle of Harlem Heights (Sep 1776), John was mortally wounded; she took over his battle station and was herself wounded, suffering permanent loss of use of one arm. She was later allowed some of the benefits accorded to veterans (money, clothing, food, alcohol rations), thereby becoming the first woman pensioner of the USA. She apparently remarried, but vanished from view c.1783. Years later she was mistakenly identified as the ‘Captain Molly Pitcher’ who had fought at Monmouth (Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley). |
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