Deborah Sampson Gannett, aka Private Robert Shurtlliff

Deborah Sampson could count William Bradford and Myles Standish in her family tree. That tree didn’t include Robert Shurtlliff; that was the alias Deborah used to enlist in the Continental Army.

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