When I was young I only wore a plain dress and washed clothes or cleaned a fireplace almost all the time, so free time was a luxury. When I grew up and married, I got some better clothes, but I was always on the move because my husband was a soldier and I never wanted to leave his side.

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My parents came from Germany. They moved to America to find a better life. I became a servant to Dr. William Irvine at age 15. Dr. William Irvine later became a general in many different wars.
 

When I became a servant, one of my many jobs was
to set the table.
   

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Clue 3

This is a butter churn. I would use it to make butter, and I will tell you how to make butter with it. First, you pour in milk and a some flavorings into the bucket part at the bottom. Then you churn it all up with the long stick that pokes out of the top. Usually it takes an hour or so for the milk to get thick enough. Then you open up the top, and you have homemade butter.

    When my husband fell from a heat stroke in the Battle of Monmouth, I took his place and fired the cannon. George Washington gave me twenty dollars ever year for as long as I lived, for the battle would have been lost if I didn't come in.

    My real name was ether Mary Hays McCauly or Mary Ludwig Hays. I got my nickname, which is the name you will know my by, by bringing pitchers of water to men battling at the Battle of Monmouth.