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Mary "Polly" Hawkins Craig

Visit Duncan Tavern KY DAR headquarters to see Molly "Polly" Craig's image on display.

"When the Bryan Station fort was besieged on 15 August by a British Canadian and Shawnee raiding party under Captain William Caldwell and Simon Girty, Craig and his wife Polly, although both were elderly, were some of the more well-known defenders. The 66-year-old Mary "Polly" Craig was reported to have led a group of women outside the fort to fetch water from a spring to quench burning arrows. Their courage was honored in 1896 by a DAR memorial located near the spring and naming all the Craig defenders."

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