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.
Deborah Sampson Gannett, better known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, was a Massachusetts woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. She is one of a small number of women with a documented record of military combat experience in that war. She served 17 months in the army under the name Robert Shirtliff of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782, and was honorably discharged at West Point, New York in 1783.