I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7240 
To designate the Manhattan Campus of the New York Harbor Health Care 
System of the Department of Veterans Affairs as the ‘‘Margaret Cochran 
Corbin Campus of the New York Harbor Health Care System’’. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 10, 2018 
Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New York (for herself, Mr. NADLER, Ms. 
VELA´ZQUEZ, and Mr. ESPAILLAT) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To designate the Manhattan Campus of the New York Har-
bor Health Care System of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs as the ‘‘Margaret Cochran Corbin Campus of 
the New York Harbor Health Care System’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF MANHATTAN CAMPUS OF 
THE NEW YORK HARBOR HEALTH CARE SYS-
TEM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AF-
FAIRS, NEW YORK. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings: 
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(1) Margaret Cochran was born in Franklin 
County, Pennsylvania, on November 12, 1751, and 
married John Corbin in 1772. 
(2) Three years after the marriage, when John 
Corbin left to fight in the Revolutionary War as an 
artilleryman, Margaret Corbin accompanied him to 
war to support the Revolutionary Army. 
(3) Margaret Corbin supported the Revolu-
tionary Army by caring for injured and sick soldiers 
as well as by cooking and cleaning. During battle, 
she also helped her husband load the cannon he was 
responsible for manning. 
(4) On November 16, 1776, John Corbin was 
manning a cannon during the Battle of Fort Wash-
ington on Manhattan Island, New York, when he 
was killed. Margaret Corbin heroically took her hus-
band’s place, firing the cannon until she, too, was 
hit by enemy fire and seriously wounded. 
(5) Having lost the use of her left arm, Mar-
garet Corbin was assigned to the ‘‘Invalid Regi-
ment’’ at West Point, New York. 
(6) The Continental Congress awarded Mar-
garet Corbin a lifelong pension for her injuries, mak-
ing her the first woman to receive a pension from 
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the United States by virtue of military service for 
the United States. 
(7) Margaret Corbin died in 1789 in Highland 
Falls, New York. She is honored nearby at West 
Point as a hero of the Revolutionary War. 
(b) DESIGNATION.—The Manhattan Campus of the 
New York Harbor Health Case System of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs in New York, New York, shall after 
the date of the enactment of this Act be known and des-
ignated as the ‘‘Margaret Cochran Corbin Campus of the 
New York Harbor Health Care System’’. 
(c) REFERENCE.—Any reference in any law, regula-
tion, map, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the Campus referred to in subsection (b) shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the Margaret Cochran 
Corbin Campus of the New York Harbor Health Care Sys-
tem. 
Æ 
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