tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post5316703650743137473..comments2024-03-28T05:28:46.610-04:00Comments on NEW ENGLAND FOLKLORE: Patriotic Ladies in DragPeter Muisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05939949561996555115noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-59573873130569492342022-06-04T10:37:33.541-04:002022-06-04T10:37:33.541-04:00Interesting post Peter! Amazing Anne Bailey was tr...Interesting post Peter! Amazing Anne Bailey was treated like a criminal for wanting to serve the cause!Rich Clabaughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15915392348153309406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1885320105550742793.post-69526229163920978612012-12-22T01:01:27.724-05:002012-12-22T01:01:27.724-05:00Ann Bailey or Nancy Bayley aka Sam or Samuel Gay w...Ann Bailey or Nancy Bayley aka Sam or Samuel Gay was not enlisted in August 1777. That was her final court date where she was tried and sentenced to two months in prison. Below is the correct into about both Sampson/Samson and Bailey. You'll notice a third name of Samuel Smith aka Anne Smith, another Massachsuetts woman that had been tried and imprison for dressing as a man in the army.<br /><br />Ancestry.com. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998). Original Data: Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution. Vol. I-XVII (Boston, MA: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896). <br /><br />Annotation: [vol. 6, p. 340] Gay, Sam. List of men mustered by Nathaniel Barber, Muster Master for Suffolk Co., dated Boston, Feb. 16, 1777; Capt. Hunt's co., Brig. Gen. Paterson's regt.<br /><br />[vol. 14, p. 539] Smith, Samuel. Private, Capt. Francis Stebbins's co., Col. David Mosley's regt.; entered service June 12, 1782; discharged June 16, 1782; service, 3 days; company raised for support of the government at Springfield and Northampton and part of it probably mounted. Roll sworn to at West Springfield.<br /><br />[vol. 14, p. 185] Shurtlieff, Robert. Receipt dated Worcester, May 23, 1782, for bounty paid said Shurtlieff by Noah Taft, Chairman of Class No. 2 of the town of Uxbridge, to serve in the Continental Army for the term of 3 years.<br />BlindDude62https://www.blogger.com/profile/15876288475968429512noreply@blogger.com