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Photographer: Bill Coughlin
Taken: September 5, 2009
Caption: Detail of Margaret Corbin Monument
Additional Description: In memory of
• Margaret Corbin •
a heroine of the Revolution
known as Captain Molly
1751 – 1800
who at the Battle of Fort Washington, New York City, when her husband John Corbin was killed, kept his field piece in action until severely wounded and thereafter, by an Act of Congress, received half the pay and allowances of
“a soldier in the service”
She lived, died and was buried on the Hudson River bank, near the village called Highland Falls. In appreciation of her deeds for the cause of Liberty, and that her heroism may not be forgotten, her dust was removed to this spot and this memorial erected by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution in New York State
1926
Submitted: September 9, 2009, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p76959
File Size: 0.939 Megabytes

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