Note 24 — ANCIENT BIBLE IN POSSESSION OF WIDOW LUCY WATERS OF SHARON, MS.

This Deborah was the mother of the American Heroine, Deborah Sampson, who, under the name of Robert Shirtlieff, served about two years as soldier in the army of the Revolution, in Capt. Webb's Company, Col. Jackson's Regiment, and General Patterson's Brigade, and after an honorable discharge from the Continental army, returned home to her mother at Plimpton in the Old Colony; assumed her female habiliments, and was married to Benjamin Gannet of Sharon, Ms., in 1784, where she died about ten years ago, and where three of her children reside at the present day.