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Happy Birthday!
Female Revolutionary War soldier/warrior
Deborah Sampson
(aka Robert Shurtleff)
b12/17/1760
Only song I've come across is "Deborah Sampson," a "counterfeit folk song"
by Sarah Lifton written in the 1970's.
(For biog., see The National Cyclopedia of American Biography, James T
White, 1979)
[Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850
Dianne Dugaw, Cambridge U. Press, 1989]
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