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 in the Revolutionary War: In the winter of 1781, Sampson began feeling restless and wanted to travel and explore other pursuits. Knowing that her options as a young woman were limited, she came up with the idea of cross-dressing as a man and sought out the advice of a fortune-teller to get some insight into her future, according to her biography The Female Review: