| LC control no. | n 50017563 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gannett, Deborah Sampson, 1760-1827 |
| Variant(s) | Gannet, Deborah Sampson, 1760-1827 Sampson, Deborah, 1760-1827 Samson, Deborah, 1760-1827 Shurtleff, Robert, 1760-1827 Shirtliff, Robert, 1760-1827 |
| Associated place | Bellingham (Mass.) Uxbridge (Mass.) |
| Birth date | 1760-12-17 |
| Death date | 1827-04-29 |
| Place of birth | Plympton (Mass.) |
| Place of death | Sharon (Mass.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Continental Army |
| Profession or occupation | Soldiers |
| Found in | Wikipedia website, Feb. 18, 2014 (Deborah Sampson Gannett; Deborah Sampson; b. Dec. 17, 1760, Plympton, Mass.; d. Apr. 29, 1827, Sharon, Mass.; served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War) New York times, 3 July 2019: Arts, page C1, in an article entitled, "She fought and bled for liberty" (Deborah Sampson; a woman who stitched herself a uniform, posed as a man and served at least 17 months in an elite unit of the Continental Army; wounded twice, Sampson carried a musket ball inside her till the day she died in 1827; enlisted May 1782 in Bellingham, Mass., calling herself Robert Shurtleff. After the way, Sampson married a Massachusetts farmer, raised a family and spent a lot of time fighting Congress to get back pay for her wartime service; both Paul Revere and John Hancock helped in her partly successful effort) Wikipedia, 3 July 2019 (Deborah Sampson Gannett (December 17, 1760-April 29, 1827), better 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.She is one of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war. She served 17 months in the army under the name "Robert Shirtliff" (also spelled in various sources as Shirtliffe and Shurtleff) of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782, and was honorably discharged at West Point, New York, in 1783) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Sampson> |
| Associated language | eng |
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