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	Deborah Samson AKA Robert Shurtleff
		Deborah Samson was born on Dec 17, 1760 to John and Deborah Samson.
		Deborah was the eldest of 3 daughters and 3 brothers.
		Deborah is now the official Heroine of the State of Massachusetts and there is even a chapter of DAR named after her.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Plains/1789/samson.html (886 words)

	Lesson Plan - DEBORAH SAMPSON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Deborah Sampson was born in Plympton, in Plymouth County, in the colony of Massachusetts on December 17, 1760.
		Deborah was very fearful of having her gender discovered, thus she hid a shot received to the thigh from her doctor.
		Deborah died on April 29, 1827 at the age of sixty-six and was buried in Rockridge Cemetery, one mile south of her home in Sharon.
	teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/sampson.htm (2732 words)

	History's Women An Online Magazine
		Deborah Sampson, the first known American woman to impersonate a man to join the army and take part in combat, was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1760.
		Deborah went to live with her mother's cousin, a Miss Fuller, where she learned to read and was happy for three years.
		Deborah Sampson was wounded in the leg in a battle near Tarrytown.
	www.historyswomen.com /earlyamerica/DeborahSampson.html (906 words)

	Deborah Sampson
		Deborah Sampson was the first known American woman to impersonate a man in order to join the army and take part in combat.
		She was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1760 as the oldest of three daughters and three sons of Jonathan and Deborah Sampson.
		Sampson was sent with her regiment to West Point, New York, where she apparently was wounded in the leg in a battle near Tarrytown.
	www.distinguishedwomen.com /biographies/sampson.html (617 words)

	The My Hero Project - Deborah Sampson
		Deborah Sampson was born on December 17, 1760 in Plymton, Massechusetts.
		Deborah Was fifth oldest so she was sent to live with her cousin Ruth Fuller in a town called Middleborough.
		Deborah was not allowed to go to school so, she read the boys school books and kept a journal.
	myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=d_sampson_ul_stpaul (503 words)

	Deborah Sampson - Notable Women Ancestors
		Deborah Sampson, born in Plympton, Massachusetts (originally called Winnetuxet) on a wintry day - December 17, 1760 - as the oldest of three daughters and three sons of Jonathan and Deborah Sampson, was the first known American woman to impersonate a man in order to join the army and take part in combat.
		Deborah's mother had continued to grieve the loss of her first born son, Robert, and this was perhaps another reason for Deborah to gain her mother's admiration in Robert's place by enlisting to fight in the Revolutionary War.
		Deborah Sampson was honorably discharged from the army at West Point on October 25, 1783 by General Henry Knox and after the war, in 1784, married Benjamin Gannett of Sharon; they had three children - Earl, Mary and Patience - and lived a life of meager existence with her family.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nwa/sampson.html (2765 words)

	Keeping a good wo/man down: Normalizing Deborah Sampson Gannett Communication Studies - Find Articles
		Deborah Sampson Gannett, the woman who masqueraded as Robert Shirtliffe, succeeded in a hoax that was, indeed, dramatic: she successfully served in the American Revolutionary Army for approximately three years.
		Sampson Gannett has been valorized in history, and her lecture is regarded as an important example of early feminist public address.
		Sampson Gannett's lecture should be considered in historical context, and her anti-feminist statements viewed as adaptations to a unique rhetorical situation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3669/is_199804/ai_n8790953 (831 words)

	Deborah Sampson Chapter DAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Deborah, daughter of Jonathan and Deborah (Bradford) Sampson was born in Plympton, Massachusetts on December 17, 1760.
		The Deborah Sampson Chapter is located in Brockton, Massachusetts and serves seven surrounding towns as well as the City of Brockton with its ongoing programs.
		The Deborah Sampson Chapter of the DAR was organized at Brockton, Massachusetts on January 25, 1897 in the Parlor of the Belmont Hotel with 21 charter members from Brockton and surrounding towns.
	members.aol.com /massdar/Massachusetts_DAR/dsampson.htm (851 words)

	Deborah Sampson
		When Deborah was a young girl her father drowned in a terrible storm.
		Because of this, Deborah knew her disguise was good enough to trick the men who she would be spending the next few years with.
		Deborah would be in the army for three continuous years, that is, as long as nobody found her out.
	russell.gresham.k12.or.us /Colonial_America/Deborah_Sampson.html (493 words)

	Deborah : Masquerade
		Deborah was born in her grandfather's house probably because her parents' house at best was small and cramped; an old-timer who knew the town in the nineteenth century thought the house might have been not "much more than a shanty.
		Deborah remarked of these years, "As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded," a poetic comment-either hers or Mann's-that suggests how grim these years of being shunted about may have been for her.
		Deborah was a servant in the family of Jeremiah and Susannah Thomas from about the age of ten, if custom was followed, probably until she was eighteen, roughly 1770 to 1778.
	www.enotalone.com /article/4905.html (2613 words)

	Cathryn Emily Davidson
		Deborah learned so much from the boys that she could read and write extremely well for a girl her age, and she began to keep a journal.
		Deborah would wear her uniform on stage and carry a musket, and do the twenty-seven maneuvers she was taught in the army.
		Deborah would not normally be able to be eligible for this pension plan because she was only on an Invalid Pension Plan, nor was she willing to do without her four dollars a month until the new sum took effect.
	www.rosemont.edu /root/main/uwc/departmental/history_davidson.htm (4175 words)

	Young, Alfred F. Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier International Social Science ...
		Sampson was the only female known to have enlisted, served, and been discharged with an eventual pension in the American Revolution.
		Deborah Sampson's father, Jonathan, was the grandson of Isaac, who was the nephew of Abraham Sampson who arrived in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, according to a chart in the Sharon Public Library archives.
		Deborah Sampson, at five years of age, was sent to live with a distant relative in Middleborough, and later to the Thomas family, also in Middleborough, for eight years.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IMR/is_1-2_80/ai_n15390090 (990 words)

	Study Guide - The Revolution Of Deborah Sampson
		Deborah Sampson, better known as the Secret Soldier, was the only recognized female veteran of tile American Revolution.
		The Revolution of Deborah Sampson, a play of high energy that employs the art of quick-change, join-in reenactments, and a touch of stage combat, is not just another tale of female heroism.
		DEBORAH: Born 1760, died 1827, enlisted as a soldier in the Continental Army disguised as a man in May of 1782.
	www.livinghistoryprograms.com /d_sampson_study_guide.htm (1302 words)

	Canton Massachusetts Historical Society, Deborah Samson, Sampson, Gannett
		Deborah Bradford Samson simply could not provide for her brood and it became necessary for her to "bound out" some of the children.
		Deborah, aged five, was taken by a spinster and she was then sent to work in the home of the elderly widow of the Reverend Peter Thatcher.
		There Deborah spent about ten years, growing to be almost five foot eight inches tall, almost a foot taller than the average woman of her day, and taller than the average man. Hours of strenuous farm work broadened her shoulders and hardened her muscles.
	www.canton.org /samson (1876 words)

	Deborah Sampson and Jemima Wilkinson - The Early America Review, Fall 1996
		n 1780 Deborah Sampson also became a Baptist, though she was expelled two years later for behaving in a "verry loose and unchristian" fashion.
		Compressing her breasts with cotton cloth and enlisting again, Sampson served in the Light Infantry 4th Massachusetts Regiment of the Continental army for seventeen months and, while scouting the enemy in war-torn Westchester County, New York, was wounded in an engagement with the Tory militia.
		eborah Sampson left a slightly deeper imprint on American history, in part because she participated in the nation's founding war and in part because her personal radicalism was less extreme.
	www.earlyamerica.com /review/fall96/biography.html (1129 words)

	Mass Moments: Deborah Sampson Performs in Boston
		Deborah Sampson was born in 1760 in Plympton, a farming village near Plymouth.
		Whatever her reasons, Deborah Sampson dressed as a man and traveled to the Worcester County town of Uxbridge, where no one knew who she was.
		Deborah Sampson Gannett was by no means the only women to serve disguised as a man. Many whose deception was discovered were publicly humiliated and some were even prosecuted — it was a crime to impersonate the opposite sex — but one historian has concluded that women often served "undetected and even.
	www.massmoments.org /moment.cfm?mid=94 (1322 words)

	Descendants - pafg463.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Hannah SAMPSON (Elijah SAMPSON, Deborah SAMPSON, Miles SAMPSON, Lorah STANDISH, Sarah ALDEN, John) was born on 23 Jul 1788 in of Duxbury, Plymouth, MA, USA.
		Deborah SAMPSON (Studley SAMPSON, Deborah SAMPSON, Miles SAMPSON, Lorah STANDISH, Sarah ALDEN, John) was born on 26 Sep 1793 in Duxbury, Plymouth, MA, USA.
		Deborah H. was born on 17 Jan 1811 in Medford, Middlesex, MA, United States.
	www.alden.org /aldengen/pafg463.htm (1551 words)

	Common-place: Ask the Author
		For Sampson, there were three versions of Mann's memoir: one published in 1797; a revised version by Mann in manuscript in the Dedham Historical Society written after Sampson died; and still a third reprinting by Mann in the 1860s with rich editorial notes by the New England genealogist and historian John Adams Vinton.
		The Sampson study combines the two kinds of history: I was interested in her life and what was singular and unique, but also in what Lepore calls her "exemplariness," or what I might call her class.
		In cross-dressing, Deborah was like a good many other plebeian women we are discovering who were in flight: to escape indentured servitude, to avoid the shame of a pregnancy, to get out of the reaches of the law, and so on.
	www.common-place.org /vol-05/no-04/author (2823 words)

	Deborah Sampson
		Deborah Sampson (1760-1827) disguised herself as a man to fight in the Revolutionary War in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment under the name of Robert Shurtliff.
		Deborah has been said many times to be the only woman soldier to actually fight in the Revolution dressed in full uniform.
		Deborah was a farm girl who longed to take a real part in the fight so, being as tall as many men, she decided the only way to be accepted into the Army was to assume a man's identity.
	www.rootsweb.com /~codcdar/womenwhoserved.htm (692 words)

	Deborah Sampson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Deborah Sampson Gannett (December 17, 1760-April 18, 1827) was the first known American woman to impersonate a man, to join the army and take part in combat.
		Deborah Sampson Gannett was born in Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
		Her parents were Jonathan and Deborah Bradford Sampson, and she was the eldest child of her six brothers and sisters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deborah_Sampson (1354 words)

	Freedom: A History of US. Biography. Deborah Sampson \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Deborah Sampson wanted to join the Continental army so badly that she put on men's clothing, walked to another town, and enlisted as Robert Shurtleff.
		Because her parents were so poor, they had sent Deborah to work on a farm as a young girl, and hard physical labor had made her strong and muscular.
		Deborah trail blazed another first—she became one of the nation's first professional female lecturers and traveled throughout New England sharing her experiences in the military.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/historyofus/web02/features/bio/B01.html (265 words)

	American Revolution: Deborah Sampson
		Deborah knew that in order to help in the war, she would have to pretend to be a man. She practiced acting like a man and finally she was ready to fight with the soldiers.
		Deborah was afraid that if the other soldiers found out that "Robert" was a girl that they would shoot her.
		Deborah taught at a school and gave lectures and speeches on what happened during the war.
	library.thinkquest.org /TQ0312848/dsampson.htm (475 words)

	The Massachusetts Historical Society \| Object of the Month
		Deborah Sampson (or Samson) was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, in 1760, to a family descended from the Pilgrim founders of Plymouth.
		Mustered on 23 May in Worcester, Sampson was deployed to the Hudson Valley, where she saw action as a light infantryman and was wounded twice.
		Although the circumstances of her enlistment and military service were unusual, like many rank-and-file soldiers in the Continental Army, Deborah Sampson Gannett encountered difficulty in obtaining a pension.
	www.masshist.org /objects/2005march.cfm (493 words)

	Women of the Revolution: Deborah Sampson \| csmonitor.com
		So Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man and joined the Army in 1782, at the age of 21.
		At a very young age, Deborah "lost her father, which left her mother stranded with several kids at the time," says historian Alfred F. Young, author of "Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier," in a recent interview.
		Deborah Sampson was a good role model for today's young women, says Young.
	www.csmonitor.com /2006/0627/p18s03-hfks.html (1022 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Deborah Sampson was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1760.
		Deborah, or Robert, fought as a Continental soldier during the Revolutionary War against the British.
		When Sampson got shot in the leg, she was carried to a hospital.
	www.ga.k12.pa.us /academics/ls/4/sstudies/Colonial/4R/4R18.htm (193 words)

	Anne Pasquale's Living History Programs - Deborah Sampson
		The story of Deborah Sampson tells the story of America's birth She was the descendant of those who sailed the Mayflower, Miles Standish and William Bradford.
		At the age of ten, Deborah's family was poor and penniless and her mother was forced to sell Deborah and her brothers and sisters into indentured servitude.
		So at the age of eighteen, when the young woman heard the cry of George Washington, she was prepared to fight and die for her liberty; she dressed as a man and enlisted in the Continental Army.
	www.livinghistoryprograms.com /deb_sampson.htm (137 words)

	Deborah Sampson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Deborah Sampson is famous because she pretended to be a man so she could go to war.
		She was born on December 17, 1760 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
		Deborah's mother sent her away to work when she was just eight.
	www2.lhric.org /pocantico/womenenc/sampson.htm (151 words)

	Continental Soldier Suite
		As a child she had an unhappy life, her father was lost at sea: And because they were penniless, her mother was forced to break up the family.
		But Deborah taught herself reading and writing, the girl was no one's fool And by the time she was twenty, she was teaching school.
		Deborah Sampson, Deborah Sampson, as a man she volunteered.
	boychoirs.org /texas/tbc006.html (2209 words)

	Feminists and the American Revolution Discussion (Feb. 1996)
		According to Nell, Burr "often speaks of their reminiscences of Deborah Sampson." This is all Nell wrote; he does not suggest that Deborah herself was fl, but apparently some readers jumped to the conclusion that fl veterans would not have "reminiscences" about any but other fl veterans.
		Deborah was well-known---indeed notorious---in her day; she went on lecture tours and her life was the subject of a book called _The Female Review_.
		I am surprised no one has mentioned Deborah Sampson Gannett (alias "Timothy Thayer" and "Robert Shurtleff") who twice enlisted in the American forces during the Revolution--dressed as a man. The first time she was discovered, but the second time she served for 18 months until she was wounded and eventually given an honorable discharge.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~women/archives/threads/disc-femamerrev.html (3457 words)

	Women Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War
		In October of 1778 Deborah Samson of Plympton, Massachusetts disguised herself as a young man and presented herself to the American army as a willing volunter to oppose the common enemy.
		In silence Washington handed Deborah Samson a discharge from the service, a note with some words of advice, and a sum of money sufficient to bear her expenses home.
		Regardless of which is the authentic version, the fact is that Deborah Samson served her country, in uniform, in the Revolutionary War.
	userpages.aug.com /captbarb/femvets.html (2106 words)

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