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Deborah Sampson
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Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, (December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827) was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Born in Plympton, Massachusetts, she served under the name Robert Shirtliff – sometimes spelled Shurtleff or Shirtleff. She was in uniform for 17 months before her sex was revealed in 1783 when she required medical treatment after contracting a fever in Philadelphia. After her real identity was made known to her commander, she was honorably discharged at West Point. After her discharge, Sampson met and married Benjamin Gannett in 1785. In 1802, she became one of the first women to go on a lecture tour to speak about her wartime experiences. She died in Sharon, Massachusetts, in 1827. She was proclaimed the Official Heroine of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on May 23, 1983, and in 1985 the United States Capitol Historical Society posthumously honored "Deborah Samson" with the Commemorative Medal.
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Addrss [sic] delivered with applause at the Federal-street theatre, Boston, four successive nights of the different plays, beginning March 22, 1802 and after, at other principal to...
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The female review or, Memoirs of an American young lady; whose life and character are peculiarly distinguished--being a continental soldier, for nearly three years, in the late Ame...
Published 1797Other Authors: “…Gannett, Deborah Sampson, 1760-1827…”
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