Women in the American Revolution played various roles depending on their social status, race and political views.
1765 portrait of a woman wearing a musket and powder horn crown and militia-inspired outfit to signal her support of the patriots
Spinning in the colonial kitchen
Molly Pitcher loading cannon at the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778
A portrait of Elizabeth Freeman.
Deborah Sampson
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Deborah Sampson Gannett, also 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 Revolut
Women in the American Revolution
…Bailey was discharged, fined, and put in jail for two weeks. Anne Smith was condemned for her attempt to join the army to secure the enlistment fee. Deborah Samson served in the Continental Army as Private Robert Shurtleff for over a year; when her gender was discovered, she was honorably discharged and granted a…
Frontispiece of The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier in the War of Revolution
Statue of Sampson at the Sharon, Massachusetts public library
Deborah Sampson's grave, Sharon, Massachusetts
Deborah Sampson Gannett House, East Street, Sharon, Mass., August 7, 1930. Leon Abdalian Collection, Boston Public Library