Molly Stark

Molly Stark
Molly Stark House, Dunbarton, New Hampshire

Molly Stark, née Elizabeth Page, (February 16, 1737–1814) was the wife of American Revolutionary War general John Stark.

She was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, moved with her family to Dunbarton, New Hampshire, around 1755, and was the daughter of the first postmaster of New Hampshire, Caleb Page, and his wife Ruth. She married General Stark on August 20, 1758. Together they had 11 children, including their eldest son Caleb Stark. The Molly Stark house still stands in Dunbarton at Page's Corner.

Stark gained historical notoriety due to her husband's battle call of "There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!" before engaging with the British and Hessian army in the Battle of Bennington. Stark is also known for her success as a nurse to her husband's troops during a smallpox epidemic and for opening their home as a hospital during the war.

Stark is honored throughout New Hampshire and Vermont with many businesses, streets and schools that bear her name, as well as the Molly Stark State Park in Wilmington, Vermont and a statue of a gun-toting Molly which overlooks the Deerfield River. Also named for her is the Molly Stark Trail, a byway otherwise known as Route 9, which crosses southern Vermont and is thought to be the route used by General Stark on his victory march home from the Battle of Bennington. Molly Stark Mountain is one of the Green Mountain peaks on the Long Trail, just south of Camel's Hump and north of Route 17, and the adjacent peak is Baby Stark.

There is a Molly Stark Hospital in northeastern Ohio. Closed in 1995, it served as a tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1930s, later becoming a state hospital for the mentally ill and the aged. In 2009 the Stark County, Ohio Commissioners were scheduled to turn the grounds and former hospital over to the Stark County Park District. The old hospital was to be demolished and the area turned into a park with hiking and bicycling trails, and picnic grounds.

The Molly Stark cannon, or "Old Molly", bears her name, and is kept by the New Boston Artillery Company in New Boston, New Hampshire.

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