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    Deborah Sampson Monument - Deborah Sampson Monument, Sharon MA

    Deborah Sampson Monument

    5.0(1 review)
    75.6 mi

    Located in front of the Sharon Public Library, this monument is tribute to Deborah Sampson…read more(1760-1827). Deborah Sampson became a hero of the American Revolution when she disguised herself as a man and joined the Patriot forces. She was the only woman to earn a full military pension for participation in the Revolutionary army. Born on December 17, 1760 in Plympton, Massachusetts near Plymouth, Sampson was one of seven children to Jonathan Sampson Jr. and Deborah (Bradford) Sampson. At age 18 she worked as a teacher during summer sessions in 1779 and 1780 and as a weaver in winter. In 1782, as the Revolutionary War raged on, the patriotic 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. At the siege of Yorktown she dug trenches, helped storm a British redoubt, and endured canon fire. For over two years, Sampson's true sex had escaped detection despite close calls. When she received a gash in her forehead from a sword and was shot in her left thigh, she extracted the pistol ball herself. She was ultimately discovered--a year and a half into her service--in Philadelphia, when she became ill during an epidemic, was taken to a hospital, and lost consciousness. Receiving an honorable discharge on October 23, 1783, Sampson returned to Massachusetts. On April 7, 1785 she married Benjamin Gannet from Sharon, and they had three children, Earl, Mary, and Patience. She received a military pension from the state of Massachusetts. Although Sampson's life after the army was mostly typical of a farmer's wife, in 1802 she began a year-long lecture tour about her experiences--the first woman in America to do so--sometimes dressing in full military regalia. A true hero and a story I've never heard before. [Review 15255 overall, 757 of 2021, number 1114 in Massachusetts.]

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    The Puritan - The Puritan, Springfield

    The Puritan

    5.0(1 review)
    15.2 mi

    I have seen this statue countless times in a variety of sizes in museums all over but now this full…read moresized sculpture has let me research the rest of the story. The Puritan is by sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens of Springfield. In 1881, Chester W. Chapin, a railroad tycoon and congressman from Springfield commissioned the sculptor to create a bronze likeness of his ancestor, Deacon Samuel Chapin (1595-1675), one of the early settlers of the City of Springfield. By 1881, Springfield had become one of America's most innovative industrial and manufacturing centers, and was one of the wealthiest cities in the United States. The sculpture, cast at the Bureau Brothers Foundry in Philadelphia, was unveiled on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 1887 in Stearns Square, between Bridge Street and Worthington Street. In 1899, the statue was moved here to Merrick Park, on the corner of Chestnut and State Streets next to the old city library, which would later become part of Springfield's Quadrangle cultural center. The statue has remained there ever since. By the time of the statue's design, no authentic portraits of Deacon Samuel Chapin were known to exist so the artist put together a composite of the family type. Though some say that it is of abolitionist John Brown (a descendant of Chapin) who is alleged "did not end the war that ended slavery, he at least began the war that ended slavery." So there you go. Now you know what I know about this imposing character. [Review 15198 overall, round number 700 of 2021, number 1061 in Massachusetts.]

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