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Sampson, Deborah

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Sampson, Deborah (1760–1827)

US Revolutionary soldier and lecturer. Sampson enlisted in the American Revolution by disguising herself as a man and adopting the name Robert Shurtleff. She concealed her identity while participating in several battles, and her gender was only discovered when she was hospitalized. Although discharged from the army, she was awarded a federal pension in 1805 and, 11 years after her death, Congress voted her husband and heirs special payments in recognition of her military service.



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