Mary “Polly” Slocumb

Mary “Polly” Slocumb — born February 11, 1760 in Bertie County; died March 1836 in Wayne County, NC. 🇺🇸

The story goes that in 1776, 16-year-old Polly heard cannon fire, rode 65 miles through the night to Moore’s Creek, and spent the next day nursing the wounded. Historians now doubt the ride — records say her husband wasn’t even at the battle. But the 1907 Women’s Monument at the battlefield still honors her as the “most honored” of the Lower Cape Fear heroines. Some legends outlive the facts because of what they say about who we were.

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