Maria Hill, Daughter of the Regiment

The marriage was performed by curate Richard Pollard at St. John's Anglican Church, Sandwich in the presence of Edna Lee Croft and George Ironside (store keeper).

Andrew Hill of the 100th Regiment, and outwitted government regulations by donning a soldier's uniform and accompanying her husband on the Niagara Campaign of 1812.

Given that she served in the barracks as a child prior to marriage (earning 5p per day for doing laundry[4]) and was married a year before hostilities broke out to a sergeant of the 100th, it seems impossible that she could disguise herself from other soldiers.

It seems much more likely that she served under her own identity as a mother and wife in the rearguard but assisting as a surgeon's aide when needed, such as in the Battles of Lundy's Lane and Chippawa.

In Act II, Laura launches into a short verse about other heroic woman on the front, She, our neighbour there At Queenston, who when our troops stood still, Weary and breathless, took her young babe, Her husband under arms among the rest, And cooked and carried for them on the field Was she not one in whom the heroic blood Ran thick and strong as e'er in times gone by?

Mrs. Currie has told the story of Laura Secord searching for her husband, who had been wounded at the Battle of Queenston Heights, and carrying him home.

In Kingsford's 1887 multi-volume set, "A History of Canada", the death of Charles Lennox is reported partly based on an interview with Maria Hill.

[9] After the war, in 1818, Hill and her husband were reportedly boarding a ship to return to England when they were offered land and a years' provisions to create a settlement for veterans of the 100th Regiment of Foot.

It was there that Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond, spent his last morning, having a breakfast prepared by Hill and complaining to her of an odd feeling in his throat, before dying of rabies from a fox bite two months previously.

[3]: 45  Maria and both husbands were eventually interred at the National Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa in the family plot of Edward Malloch II her son-in-law.