Deborah Sampson

Deborah Sampson Gannett , better known as Deborah Sampson or Deborah Samson, was a woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She is part of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war. She servedmonths in the army, as Robert Shurtleff of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782 and honorably discharged at West Point, New York in 1783.

Although having prominent ancestry , the Sampsons were not well off by the time Deborah was born in Plympton, Massachusetts on December 17, 1760. Her siblings were Jonathan , Elisha , Hannah , Ephraim , Nehemiah , and Sylvia .

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