Margaret Corbin

By 00florencia00

  • Margaret Cochran Corbin is born

  • Margaret Corbin marries John Corbin

  • The state of Pennsylvania gave Corbin $30.00 to help with her expenses in recognition of her bravery

  • Margaret Corbin goes into the battlefield in Fort Washington with her husband

  • The Continental Congress awarded her with a lifelong pension equivalent to half of the amount a man would receive

  • Corbin remarried a fellow wounded soldier, who died a year later

  • Margaret Corbin dies