Deborah Sampson
Military Person
1760 – 1827
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Who was Deborah Sampson?
Deborah Sampson Gannett, better known as Deborah Sampson, was an American woman who disguised 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 served 17 months in the army, as "Robert Shurtlieff" of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782 and honorably discharged at West Point, New York in 1783.
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1760
Plympton - Spouses
- Benjamin Gannet
(1785/04/17 - 1827/04/29)
- Benjamin Gannet
- Lived in
- Uxbridge
- Died
- Apr 29, 1827
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on July 23, 2013
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