Mary Pitcher (Diamond) - Moll Pitcher

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From WIKIPIEDIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moll_Pitcher

Moll Pitcher, born Mary Diamond (c. 1736, probably Marblehead, Massachusetts – April 9, 1813) was a clairvoyant and fortune-teller from Lynn, Massachusetts. A tree in West Dedham, today Westwood, was named for her in 1837.[

Moll Pitcher was said to have descended from a long line of "wizards." Her father, Aholiab Diamond, was a cordwainer in Lynn. He and Lydia Silsbee were married in 1735. There were no public schools for girls at the time of her youth, but Moll Pitcher seems to have received some education. On October 2, 1760 she married Robert Pitcher, probably an apprentice of her father. The couple continued to live with the Diamonds and had four children, John, Rebecca, Ruth and Lydia. Her parents and brother died about 1788, and Moll Pitcher inherited the family property.

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