Sampson, Deborah

Sampson, Deborah( 1760–1827),
born in Massachusetts, after a rather peripatetic youth as an orphan disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental army for more than two years. Not until after the war did she reveal herself to be a woman, but in 1784 she married and settled down to a normal quiet life. The Female Review; or, Life of Deborah Sampson (1797) is an anonymous biography, obviously bordering on fiction.