So I'll like to tell you about a badass woman of the American Revolution who we don't actually known if she was a real person as it's hard to explain her story from Fact and Folklore, her name is Nancy Hart and she is a Freedom Fighter, and here we'll be talking about the Card version of her in Story of America Cards: The Revolution.

(Who is Nancy Hart?)

Nancy Morgan Hart also known as just Nancy Hart was a rebel heroine of The American Revolutionary War, she is noted for exploits against Loyalists in the northeast backcountry of Georgia.

She is characterized as being a tough and resourceful frontier woman who repeatedly outsmarted Tory soldiers (Those being Loyalists) and killed some too. A lot of stories about her are unsupported mostly by contemporary documentation and so because of this it has been hard for researchers to distinguish fact from folklore.

(Captured Redcoats Single-handed)

An American patriot who could handle a rifle as well as any man, Nancy Morgan Hart won fame for her exploits during the Revolution. Born Nancy Morgan around 1735, she may have been related to Daniel Boone (though her mother's side of the family) - (Guess that might explain why she is so good with a rifle), and General Daniel Morgan, another hero of the Revolution.

While still a teenager she met and married a Virginian named Benjamin Hart, and together they followed the frontier into South Carolina, then Georgia.

Staunch supporters of the Revolution against British Rule, the harts became part of a patriot minority in Georgia.

Nancy Hart, reputedly an illiterate woman, stood close to six feet (1.8 cm.), tall and was very sturdy, Unafraid of the Tories (British Sympathizers), who were all around her, she would go out on scouting expeditions dressed as a man in order to obtain information more easily.

She is best remembered, however, for an encounter with a group of Tories who were in pursuit of an escaping patriot. The story involved some five or six Tories who entered her home one day while pursuing the suspect. They demanded that she prepare a meal for them, and while she was doing so, she gave them plenty of whiskey to drink.

After the Tories had fallen asleep in a drunken stupor, she sent her daughter Sukey, who was only 12 years old, to warn her father about the trouble at home. Meanwhile Nancy began moving quietly about the room, collecting the rifles the men had put down while they were drinking.

When one of the Tories realized what Nancy was doing he tried to attack her.

She was an excellent shot and killed him instantly. She then held off the others until her husband arrived with a group of patriot villagers. The Tories were all summarily hanged.

Nancy Hart had eight children in all, and after the Revolution she moved with her large family to Burnswick, Georgia, when her husband died she resettled in Clarke County, Georgia and then in Kentucky, where she died in 1830.

Nancy Hart's exploits were handed down in the oral tradition of Broad River County, Georgia, but they were not recorded until long after the Revolution.

Much of what is known about her cannot be verified in written accounts before 1848, When Elizabeth Ellet published her volume Women of the Revolution. In it, Ellet included information she had gathered from old-timers in Georgia who had heard about events involving "Aunt Nancy" from their grandparents.

(The Legacy of Nancy Hart)

It is true and certain that Nancy Morgan Hart did exist as an actual person during this time. She would may have done some of these things for patriots during the War.

However, since some stuff about Nancy appears to be lost to time and it's hard to determine from Fact and Fiction to who she actually was in real life is unknown.

It is thanks to people like; Elizabeth Ellet that we have close information from people who were alive around the same time as Nancy to remember her and then spread it to their children and gran-kids to which Nancy and other women who were involved in the Revolution to not be forgotten same can go for woman in previous wars or the Civil War for example.

Another fact that can point to Nancy Hart's existence would be the approximate site of Hart's frontier cabin which is along River Road in Elbert County. The Daughters of the American Revolution erected a replica cabin in the early 20th century. Made with chimney stones recovered from the site of the original cabin, which had stood on the crest of a large hill overlooking Wahachee Creek.

In Georgia there are places that memorized Nancy Hart, One is Hart county located north of Elbert County, there is also a county seat named Hartwell after her.

Another is that during the American Civil War, a group of women in LaGrange, Georgia founded an all-female militia company, which they named the Nancy Harts, to defend the town from the Union Army. Most of the men of fighting age had been drawn off to war.

In the 20th century, nearby Lake Hartwell and Hartwell Dam, Hart State Park, and the Nancy Hart Highway (Georgia Route 77) commemorate the legendary woman. In 1997 Hart was inducted into Georgia Women of Achievement.

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And that's all on Nancy Hart from Story of America Cards and other information I found about her. I hope you enjoyed learning about her, because she sounds like a tough woman, even if some information on her is not true or not to the actual Nancy Hart. But this is where I'll end and I'll see you in my other stuff I do.