Molly was a poverty-stricken, uneducated lass from a small, remote village in Ireland. In 1735, she had the opportunity to sign on for a five year term as an indentured servant to a British official residing on the American frontier in the Colony of Pennsylvania. Her ill, destitute, widowed father, realizing this was her chance to escape their harsh life where they worked their fingers to the bone and never had enough to eat, encouraged her to go...