Deborah+Sampson

Deborah Sampson by Sarah Deborah Sampson was born in 1760 and died in 1827. Also Deborah Sampson was the first known woman to imperonate a man.

Sampson's youth was spent in poverty. Her dad had abandoned her family and went of to sea. Her mom was too poor to to raise the family, so she sent Deborah, her brothers, and sisters to either neighbors or family members. For over ten years Deborah worked in farms and a servant. On May 20,1782 deborah enrolled herself as a man named Robert Shurtleff and was made a soledier in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment.

Sampson was sent to West point New York, where she presumably got shot in the leg. Since she didn't want any one to know of her impersonating of a man, she always treated her own wounds. However, her leg never did grow back properly.

After a while Sampson got a fever and had to be hospitlized. There, the doctor treating her wounds found out about her impersonation of being a man. There the doctor made arangements to end her millatary career. Sapson was honnerably discharged from the army in 1783.

Soon after Sampson returned home, she got married to Benjimen Gannet and had three kids. About nine years after being discharged from the army, Sampson was awarded a pension from the congress of Massachusetts. Soon after Paul Revere sent a letter to congress on Sampson's behalf, in 1804, she started recieving a U.S. pension of four dollars a month. In April of 1827, Deborah Sampson dies at the age of sixty six.

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