What an adventurous young woman, shemust have been to disguise herself as a man to be able to fight for the Continental Army in the American Revolution. She later received a pension for her service from the American government and lived on a farm in this town of Sharon, Massachusetts.

Deborah Sampson was a woman who disguised herself as a man and fought as a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. She received a pension for her military service in the Revolutionary War and later settled on a farm in Sharon, Massachusetts, the town in which this statue stands.