What is Deborah Sampson?
{{more sources|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox military person |name = Deborah Sampson |image = DeborahSampson.jpg |caption = Frontispiece of ''The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier in the War of Revolution''. |birth_date = {{birth date|1760|12|17}} |birth_place = [[Plympton, Massachusetts]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1827|4|29|1760|12|17}} |death_place = [[Sharon, Massachusetts]] |placeofburial = Rock Ridge Cemetery, [[Sharon, Massachusetts]] |allegiance = {{Flagcountry|United States|1795|size=23px}} |branch = {{Flagicon image|Gadsden flag.svg}} [[Continental Army]] |unit = Light Infantry Company, [[4th Massachusetts Regiment]] |rank = [[Private (rank)#United States Army|Private]] |serviceyears = 1782–1783 |battles = [[American Revolutionary War]] |spouse = [[Benjamin Gannett]] |relations = 3 children (Earl, Mary, Patience) |laterwork = Teacher<br />Weaver<br />Soldier<br />Lecturer<br />Farmer }} '''Deborah Sampson''' was a woman who dressed as a man, so that she could join the American soldiers in the [[Revolutionary War]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/mythbusting-founding-mothers |title=Mythbusting the Founding Mothers |last=Howat |first=Kenna |date=2017-07-14 |website=National Women's History Museum |access-date=2018-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=American Women's History |last=Weatherford, Doris |date=1994 |publisher=Prentice Hall}}</ref> The Revolutionary War was a war between [[Great Britain]] and the thirteen original colonies. Deborah Sampson came from a poor family. She worked as an indentured servant from the age of eight to the age of eighteen. She worked for no pay for a family, but that family let her study with and spend time with their sons. Sampson wanted to serve in the war against the British, but '''the American Army''' would only take men. She dressed as a man, and she got into the [[Continental Army]]. She went by the name of Robert Shurtleff.