Deborah Sampson was born in Plympton, Massachusetts, on December 17, 1760. She was very poor and her father soon abandoned the family to go to sea, then discovered he had died in a ship wreck. She was an indentured servant for over six years before becoming a teacher. Later in her life she became a teacher and didn't like the way women were treated, so she dressed as a man and joined the army in the 4th Massachusetts Regiment in 1782. She hid her leg wound so that doctors couldn't find out that it was. a woman and take her out of the army. Then later it was discovered that she was a woman for the other part of her army after she was wounded in an encounter with British soldiers near Tarrytown, New York, then she was discharged from the army in 1783. Taking the name Robert Shurtleff and wearing men's clothes he joined the 4th Massachusetts Regiment in 1782. The day he arrived in Bellingham, the place where they recruit soldiers, Sampson went straight to the recruiting office. He was also under the command of General Paterson, his general was named after his brother who died shortly after his birth in the war. Deborah must have been a good soldier because after just two weeks she was in charge of a special unit of soldiers called rangers. They were tasked with monitoring activity on the outskirts of the British base and reporting back to the general. Her first assignment was a twelve-day march to West Point, New York, where they walked until they got to where she had forgotten, but this is where she was born. At West Point she and her soldiers had to split in half and meet again at Tarrytown the next day. His division arrived the next morning, then from afar a bunch of bullets flew towards the soldier... middle of paper... after the American Revolution, it was one of the most serious days for the economy, and to help money in her family, Deborah became the first female teacher. She went to places like Providence, Rhode Island, New York and many cities as the title of "The American Heroine." He began his lessons dressed as a woman and then put on his uniform and demonstrated a soldier's combat routine. Then he did that for about 5 years, then he got a job as a teacher again. Sampson was a teacher until she retired, then she got even sicker due to wounds she received during the war, she had to take pills and go to doctors to heal. With the success of her tour, Deborah refreshed her campaign and also gained the support of Paul Revere, who came to her farm in 1804 and then wrote a letter to Congress.