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Deborah Sampson

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Continental Army soldier

United StatesLived 1760 to 1827 · aged 66
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Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

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Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve 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 discovered in 1783 when she required medical treatment after contracting a fever in Philadelphia.

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Lived 1760 to 1827 · aged 66
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