noun. 1  1A person having an innate talent for a particular task or activity. 2  2Music. 3  3mass noun An off-white colour. 4  4(in a gambling game) a combination or score that immediately wins. 5  5Fishing. 6  6archaic A person born with a learning disability.
Deborah Sampson married Benjamin Gannett on April 7, 1785. They had three children: Earl (1786), Mary (1788) and Patience (1790). The marriage was for the most part cursed with poverty. The Gannetts lived in a small three room structure in Sharon.
Imagine disguising yourself as someone else. You put on a costume, you cut your hair, and you pretend to be an entirely different person. Could you fool the people around you? Women were not allowed in the Army in the days of the American Revolution. So Deborah Sampson disguised herself as a man and joined the Army in 1782, at the age of 21. She fooled everyone for 17 months â marching with the men of the 4th Massachusetts Regiment as Robert Shurtliff, Continental soldier, fighting alongside male soldiers in skirmishes against the British.