Show 11I 5sraren 1 sea IsAre About twehe miles from Iloston nn Ibs rend to Concord ilnndt n fine old hones surrounded bra Umiitlfully kept farm ny the New York Mall nnd Ix press Just al the back of Ills old time mansion is n magnificent plno grate from which the place take III name Ilnodrovo farm Here live the descendants ot an American Jeanna dAre Deborah Knmpion hy name whose history liken from Iho gene obey of the Hampson family Is I unique and thrilling This rcvoltillonar maid I left to Iho raro of strangers at a tender age with a mind film ahead of her limn and elm until she was 20 did the farm drudgery leqtilrcd of a hound girl feeding the t i pig and chicken I and milking tho cow Him had a passion for muling but Ditto opportunity lo Indulge It She gilncd enough knowledge however to teach n public school In Mlddlcbaro where Ihn curriculum was comprised I In Tho New England Primer n spellIng spell-Ing book tha psalter and n new testament testa-ment The lepealed 1 Invasions at popular 1 I right on 1 the part of King Ocorgo and hU minister made a strong Impression I on Debornh Hampson mind She drank deep I of the fountain of patriotic Inspiration Shot fell from the Ipa of the Eery Oils Iho devoted Warren and IheilaiiiitlMMi Adam Her blood leaped on silo heard the new of the fusion Ira party Then ranie Lexington and Hunker Hill and ono fine summer morning the scholar In the Uttlo Mid dlehore schoolhouse found their teacher gone She hall spun herself a suit of men s clothes lakes Iho name of Fuller Ful-ler and ran away to the wan Tim gill wa wintered Into the arm vice nt Worcester and In company with a large number of recruit marched Join Ibo army at West Point There slum was placed In Capt Webb com patsy of light Infantry In Col 8htp herd regiment and len Patterson brigade Here her civilian suit wn exchanged for tha continental uniform In her first experience on tho Held the attack of the enemy was iinexfect ed and furious and n mnn at her tide was shot dead However she suffered leas from fear than from fatigue thirst and the heat of the day She served In the French i army under Count Itooham brail all told by her In vlrld terms and participated In the march of the wholn allied 1 army under Washington to protect Now York resulting In the slcgo 1 of Yorktown Thus exposure brought on n severe colt together with exhaustion and blistered hands Her delicate nppcaranco and having no btnrd wn often noticed 1 and she was called the mockfaced boy but her sex was never inspected Rite went through thrco campaigns sharing In all the hardships and was twice wounded At last being overtaken with a ma llgnnnt fever amid being brought lo the verge of death Iho attending ph stun discovered that the bravo laddlo was a woman bun he sacredly guarded the cccrct ave to lie matron who had her removed to her own apartments anJ nursed with the greatest care On her departure for camp after this Illness for the purpose of being dls charged the doctor wrote a letter 1 to len Patterson disclosing the secret Tbll general who had had the oung woman as alddoeamp on his staff was greatly astonished but treated her with utmost klndnesi giving her an honorable honor-able discharge Mis Sampson wan granted a pension On returning home slue did not Immediately mnko herself known among her relative but at length resumed female apparel and employments em-ployments In n few month alto was married nnl hocnnio Iho wife of lien Jjniln lannett of Sharon and lived lo rear n family of three children At the ago of 07 she died nt her home In Sharon when she haul lustalued the character of an exemplary wife ana mother a I well as a gallant and devot M patriot |