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nine good turns as it were – my circumstances require that I should ask the hundredth." He sent the ten dollars. In 1809, she sent another petition to
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473:, on April 7, 1785. After her discharge and marriage to Gannett, Sampson lived the first few years of her civilian life as a typical farmer’s wife. They were the parents of four children: Earl (b. 1786), Mary (b. 1788), Patience (b. 1790), and Susanna Baker Shepherd, whom they adopted after she was orphaned. They lived with Gannett's father on the Gannett family farm, but had limited success because it was smaller than average and the land had been overworked.
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successful; when her time as an indentured servant was over at age 18, Sampson made a living by teaching school during the summer sessions in 1779 and 1780. She worked as a weaver in the winter; Sampson was highly skilled and worked for the Sproat Tavern as well as the Bourne, Morton, and
Leonard families. During her time teaching and weaving, she boarded with the families that employed her.
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that every person with whom I have conversed about her, and it is not a few, speak of her as a woman with handsome talents, good morals, a dutiful wife, and an affectionate parent." On March 11, 1805, Congress approved the request and placed
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with about 30 infantrymen from her unit combating with local band of Tories. Sampson was shot in her thigh and sustained a sword cut to her forehead. She begged her fellow soldiers not to take her to a doctor out of fear her sex would be discovered, but a soldier put her on his horse and took her to
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438:(1751–1787). After Sampson fell unconscious due to fever, Dr. Binney removed her clothes to treat her and discovered the cloth she used to bind her breasts. Without revealing his discovery to army authorities, he took her to his house, where his wife, daughters, and a female nurse cared for her.
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about her wartime service. After extolling the virtues of traditional gender roles for women, she left the stage, returned in her army uniform, then proceeded to perform a complicated and physically taxing military drill and ceremony routine. She performed both to earn money and to justify her
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enlistment, but even with these speaking engagements, her husband and she were unable to pay all the family's expenses. She frequently had to borrow money from her family and from her friend
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church to which she belonged learned of her actions and withdrew its fellowship, meaning that its members refused to associate with her unless she apologized and asked forgiveness.
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Deborah Sampson Gannett House, East Street, Sharon, Mass., August 7, 1930. Leon Abdalian Collection, Boston Public Library
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Roots and Branches, The Extended Family of Gertrude and Rodney Monk
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1427:. Boston, Stanhope Press, F. H. Gilson Company. 1907
1278:. Milwaukee, WI: World Almanac Library. p. 15.
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1821:Deborah Sampson: American Revolutionary War Hero
1800:The Secret Soldier: The Story of Deborah Sampson
625:I'm Deborah Sampson: A Soldier of the Revolution
465:Sampson married Benjamin Gannett (1757–1837), a
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1765:Soldier's Secret: The Story of Deborah Sampson
865:"National Women's History Museum: Biographies"
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1220:. New York, NY: William Abbatt. p. 21.
1139:. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books. p. 97.
660:(2014), a fictionalized account of her life.
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1781:. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1999.
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1884:People from Sharon, Massachusetts
1904:Women in the American Revolution
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1899:Women in the United States Army
1739:. New York: Atria Books, 2003.
1767:. New York: Henry Holt, 2009.
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920:10.1080/08821127.2021.1982578
715:A Girl Called Samson: A Novel
1726:Resources in other libraries
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1113:Myrick, Carolyn E. (2005).
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1838:Retrieved April 15, 2012.
1735:Bohrer, Melissa Lukeman.
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