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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pitcher, Molly (search)
Pitcher, Molly In the battle of Monmouth (q. v.) a shot from the British artillery instantly killed an American gunner while working his piece. His wife, Mary, a young Irishwoman twenty-two years of age, and a sturdy camp-follower, had been fetching water to him constantly from a spring near by. When he fell there appeared no one competent to fill his place, and the piece was ordered to be removed. Mary heard the order, and, dropping her bucket and seizing a rammer, vowed that she would fill her husband's place at the gun and avenge his death. She did so with skill and courage. The next morning she was presented to Washington by General Greene, who was so pleased with her bravery that he gave her a commission as sergeant and had her name placed on the pay-list for life. The fame of Sergeant Mary, or Molly Pitcher, as she was more generally known, spread throughout the army.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Small-pox. (search)
more. Other physicians denounced the practice, and many sober people declared that if any of Dr. Boylston's inoculated patients should die he ought to be tried for murder. An exasperated mob paraded the streets with halters in their hands, threatening to hang the inoculators, and Dr. Boylston's family was hardly safe in his own house. A lighted grenade was thrown into the chamber of an inoculated patient in the house of Dr. Cotton Mather. The selectmen of Boston took strong ground against inoculation; so, also, did the popular branch of the legislature. The violent opposition of the physicians, led by a Scotchman named Douglas, was the chief cause of the excitement. When news arrived of the success attending the operation on Lady Mary's daughter (performed the same month that Dr. Boylston introduced it in Boston) opposition was soon silenced, and inoculation was extensively practised in the colonies until Jenner's greater discovery of the merits of vaccination for the kine-pox.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maryland, (search)
State Treasurer Stevenson Archer discovered to be a defaulter to the amount of $132,401.25, March 27; is arrested at his home in Belair, April 10; is tried, pleads guilty, and is sentenced to five years imprisonment......July 7, 1890 Ex-Gov. Philip Francis Thomas dies at Baltimore, aged eighty......Oct. 2, 1890 United States Senator Ephraim King Wilson dies in Washington, D. C.......Feb. 24, 1891 Monument erected by the State to Leonard Calvert, first governor of the colony, at Old St. Mary's......June 3, 1891 Charles H. Gibson qualifies as United States Senator by executive appointment to fill place of Senator Wilson, deceased......Dec. 7, 1891 Ex-Postmaster-Gen. John A. Cresswell dies at Belair......Dec. 23, 1891 Charles H. Gibson elected by the legislature as United States Senator to fill unexpired term......Jan. 21, 1892 Ex-Gov. E. Louis Lowe dies in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged seventy......Aug. 23, 1892 Amendment to constitution in reference to judge of the