Pitcher, Molly

Mary Hays McCauley - Carlisle’s Molly Pitcher

The story of Molly Pitcher is complex. It is a story that is part fact, part myth, and partly the combination of stories of multiple women during the Revolutionary War.¹ Myths were built up and repeated without documented evidence to support the story.

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Women of Carlisle's East End

Thomas Penn, a son of William Penn and a Proprietor of the lands remaining from his father's original grant, was actively involved in plans related to the design of Carlisle. The town, as originally developed, incorporated sixteen square blocks centered on a Square bounded by the cardinal streets: North, South, East and West.

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