Biography Of Kate Barry

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Catherine Moore Barry
Catherine Moore Barry also known as Kate Barry was born on October 22, 1752 around Spartanburg, South Carolina to Professor Charles and Mary Moore. Kate was the oldest of ten children. At the age of 15 Kate married Andrew Berry. The newlywed couple moved to Walnut Grove, South Carolina, where the couple began their family. They had three children together. Meanwhile her husband Andrew Berry joined the colonist in the war against Great Britain where he became a Captain in the Continental Army.
In early 1781, Catherine rode out and warned the town and the militia that the British were coming. Her husband, Brother (Thomas Moore), and several of her brother-in-laws were a few of the lives saved by her heroics. Her and her
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Nancy was born around 1935 in either Pennsylvania or North Carolina. Nancy was a nickname for Ann. People said that Nancy grew to be six feet tall and muscular and fearless. The local Cherokees referred to her as “Wahatche” or “war woman.” Nancy married Benjamin Hart in 1771 and they settled along the Broad River in Wilkes County, Georgia. They had six sons and two daughters. During the American Revolution Nancy’s husband was away and she was left to tend to the farm. Nancy enjoyed spying on the British. She would dress up as a man and go into the British camp pretending to be feeble minded so she could obtain information. Nancy also engaged in the war. Many say that Nancy may have been in the battle at Battle of Kettle Creek on February 14, …show more content…
“There is a plaque at Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan, hails her “as the first woman to take a soldier’s part in the War for Liberty’”. (Michals, 2015)

Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley Mary Ludwig was born on October 13, 1754 near Trenton, New Jersey, to John and Gretchen Ludwig. Her father was a dairy farmer. Mary became a domestic servant at the age of thirteen and married William Hays the local barber that same year on July 24, 1769. Later, John joined Proctor 's First Company of Pennsylvania Artillery. Mary joined her husband as a camp follower at Valley Forge.
At the Battle of Monmouth Mary’s husband John was loading, firing, and cleaning the cannon and he ended up collapsing due to the heat. Mary was taking water back and forth to the soldiers and the men running the cannons so that they could keep them cool. She seen her husband collapse and she took over the cannon herself. “A soldier named Joseph Plumb Martin was also in the battle. Later he wrote about what he saw. He said that while Mary was loading a canon during the battle, she was standing with her feet spread wide apart. A canon ball shot between her legs. It tore off the bottom of her petticoat. Mary was not hurt” (Mary Ludwig Hays

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