Molly Stark
(1737-1814)
BIRTH
February 16, 1737
PLACE
Haverhill, Massachusetts
NAME
Elizabeth Page
DEATH
1814
PLACE
Manchester, New Hampshire
FAMILY
HUSBAND
John Stark
(1728-1822)
CHILDREN
Caleb Stark
(1759-1838)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
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AWARDS
Elizabeth “Molly” Page Stark (1737–1814) was the wife of Revolutionary general John Stark. In New Hampshire she raised their children and managed the family farm during his military absences. Local histories also credit her with nursing soldiers during a smallpox outbreak, although details of that episode vary. Her name became famous through the battle cry attributed to John before Bennington in 1777. Vermont’s Molly Stark State Park commemorates her memory.
EARLY LIFE
Molly Stark was born on Feb 16, 1737 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Molly Stark is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Molly Stark died on Jun 29, 1814 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Elizabeth “Molly” Page Stark was the wife of Revolutionary general John Stark. In New Hampshire she raised their children and managed the family farm during his military absences. Local histories also credit her with nursing soldiers during a smallpox outbreak, although details of that episode vary. Molly Stark died on Jun 29, 1814 in Manchester, New Hampshire. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
Stark Park
2000 Elm St, Manchester, NH 03104
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