2024-07-292024-07-292013-04-20https://hdl.handle.net/10929/137512In 1782, as the Revolutionary War raged on, the patriotic Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man named Robert Shurtleff and joined the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment. At West Point, New York, she was assigned to Captain George Webb�s Company of Light Infantry. She was given the dangerous task of scouting neutral territory to assess British buildup of men and materiel in Manhattan, which General George Washington contemplated attacking. In June of 1782, Sampson and two sergeants led about 30 infantrymen on an expedition that ended with a confrontation�often one-on-one�with Tories. She led a raid on a Tory home that resulted in the capture of 15 men. She was also one of the first women to receive a pension for her military service and the first woman to go on a national lecture tour of the United States.Original file name 18.jpg4347 x 2898Each photograph within this collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. Therefore, these photos may only be used in a way that is permitted by copyright and related rights legislation. The following terms of use for State Library patrons shall apply. 1. Educational Institution/student use is permitted as long as such usage adheres to all copyright and related rights legislation. In these instances, these photographs may only be used for educational or historical purposes. 2. Non-Commercial use is permitted without permission from the rights holder, as long as such use adheres to all copyright and related right legislation. 3. Under no circumstances may these photographs be used for commercial purposes without the direct permission of the rights-holder. 4. Under no circumstances may these photographs be used for political purposes. 5. Users must always give appropriate credit to the photographer. The credit may not in any way suggest the right's holder endorses the user or their use of the photographs. 6. Photographs may be copied or redistributed in any medium or format as long as such use does not violate copyright and related rights legislation. 7. Users may remix, transform, and rebuild upon the original photographs as long as it does not violate copyright and related rights legislation.Women SoldiersWomen Soldiers in the Continental ArmyRole Women in the American RevolutionJockey HollowMorristown National Historical ParkHistoric MorristownNational Historical ParkThe American RevolutionAmerican HistoryUS HistoryGeorge WashingtonContinental ArmyWinter EncampmentHistoryMorristownThe Ford MansionMorris CountyThe American Revolution in New JerseyThe SkylandsLakelandNew JerseyNJJerseyThe Garden State