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Molly had only two children. Sarah Polasses, the handsome girl whom Uncle Hardy painted and Piel Molly or Piel Nicolai the one "who bit it his nose". Piel's widow was at the house in '87 a very pretty black eyed squaw, forty nine years old, graceful, polite and merry. { Clara says she [Molly] had two more by Gov. Neptune who did not live

On one occasion Aitteon Lola, Molly's son-in-law had pawned some moosehides here and afterwards set out to steal them. He sent another Indian to talk with my grandfather while he went into the shed and stole the hides and carried them off up to the camp where Burke's brickyard is now. Toward night Old Molly came down and sat by the fire with her tall hat on and her blanket drawn around her. She said - "Hardy, you got um dem four moose hides?" After a pause she said "Hardy, you got um dem moose hides?" Yes. "Ah-h. Long pause - "Hardy you sure you got um