Lots more on her story at the link.
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Another movie script begins to unfold.
Let’s see if they can stick to the script without too many
‘updates’.
Adventure-seeking women have turned up in all sorts of situations. Many of them were nuns! Two of my daughters have joined the military (Coast Guard, Marines), but back in the (18th, 19th century) day, that wasn’t an option.
Religious life was an option, and Deborah Sampson’s life was an option.
The dissenting faiths like Baptist, Methodist and Presbyterian had a low opinion of both the Church of England and the monarchy. It was a remnant of the English Civil War.
There’s another story of a young couple from the NC mountains during the Civil War. He got conscripted so she cut her hair and wrapped her chest with a bandage and enlisted in his unit. They pulled it off until she got hurt and the camp surgeon discovered he was a she.
She was discharged so he got nekkid and rolled around in poison ivy. The surgeon couldn’t figure out it out so he was discharged and went back home and she nursed him back to health.
The two became renegade bandits until the war was over.
They’re both part of my ancestry. Both Sampsom and Weston were from Mayflower passenger lineage as well.
My surname line married into both families.