Tonight's
dish is an easy chicken thighs in the oven with a sticky sauce. We
present it in honor of our hero Deborah Sampson, Revolutionary War,
and LGBT hero. Read about this courageous person after the recipe.
Sticky
sweet balsamic chicken thighs served with brown rice and vegetables
is a welcome meal for autumn. Whisk up this yummy chicken and break
out the wet naps!
Ingredients
4
chicken thighs, bone in, skin on
Sauce:
1/3
cup balsamic vinegar
2½
Tbs soy sauce, low sodium
1/3
cup honey
2
garlic cloves, minced
Instructions
Preheat
oven to 350F. Chop up the
garlic. Let the chicken set out for 5 minutes to get to room
temperature.
spray
a small baking dish.
Tip:
when pouring any syrupy thing, spray the measuring spoon with cooking
spray. You will get the right amount and it will be so much easier
to clean off.
Place
chicken in baking dish, skin side down. Make sure the chicken highs
are close to each other, with no more than 4” between each piece.
Bake
20 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. The internal
temperature should be around 175 degrees. By this time the
sauce should have thickened. Let it rest out of the oven while you
fix the vegetables, then spoon sauce over chicken and serve.
Recipe
Notes:
*Sugar
measurement - To do this, just scoop up brown sugar and level it off.
Don't pack it down into the cup then top with more sugar - if you do
that, you will use about 30% more sugar.
Calories
475 each piece. Total fat 18g, Saturated fat 5, Cholesterol 254,
sodium 872mg, Carbohydrates 26
Serve
this with a brown rice (Lower
GLYCAEMIC INDEX.
Keeps you fuller for longer) and microwave some stir-fry vegetables
while the chicken is resting.
For
our music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cne3GAB4W5I
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intimate dinner for Master.
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To
nourish, support and maintain.
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gratify, spoil, comfort and please,
to
nurture, assist, and sustain
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Deborah Sampson (December
17, 1760 – April 29, 1827), was a Massachusetts woman who disguised
herself as a man in order to serve in the Continental Army during the
American Revolutionary War. She is one of a small number of women
with a documented record of military combat experience in that war.
She served 17 months in the army under the name "Robert
Shirtliff" of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, was wounded in 1782, and
was honorably discharged at West Point, New York, in 1783.
Deborah
Sampson was born in 1760, in Plympton, Massachusetts, into a
family of modest means. Sampson's mother was the
great-granddaughter of William Bradford, Governor of Plymouth
Colony. Her father abandoned the family. He fled to Maine and took
a common-law wife named Martha.
When
her mother was unable to provide for her children, so she placed
them in the households of friends and relatives, a common practice
in 18th-century New England.
Sampson
was placed in various homes When she was sent to live with Widow
Mary Prince Thatcher, who was then in her eighties, she learned to
read. Widow Thatcher wanted Sampson to read Bible verses to her.
Upon
the widow's death, Sampson was sent to live with the Jeremiah
Thomas family in Middleborough, where she worked as an indentured
servant from 1770 to 1778. Although treated well, she was not sent
to school like the Thomas children because Thomas was not a
believer in the education of women. Sampson was able to learn from
Thomas's sons, who shared their school work with her. When her
time as an indentured servant was over at age 18, Sampson made a
living by teaching school during the summer sessions in 1779 and
1780. She also worked as a highly skilled weaver. During her
time teaching and weaving, she boarded with the families that
employed her.
Sampson
was also reported to have woodworking and mechanical aptitude. Her
skills included basket weaving, and light carpentry such as
producing milking stools and winter sleds. She was also
experienced with fashioning wooden tools and implements including
weather vanes, spools for thread, and quills for weaving. She also
produced pie crimpers, which she sold door to door.
Sampson
was approximately 5 feet 9 inches tall, compared to the average
woman of her day, who was around 5 feet, and even the average man,
who was 5 feet 6 inches.
Her
biographer, Hermann Mann, who knew her personally for many years,
implied that she was not thin. He also reported that her breasts
were very small, and that she bound them with a linen cloth to
hide them during her years in uniform. Mann wrote that "the
features of her face are regular; but not the most beautiful."
Sampson's appearance — tall, broad, strong, and not delicately
feminine — contributed to her success at pretending to be a man.
Mainstream
historians have been unwilling to say Deborah Sampson was anything
but heterosexual, Keith Stern, author of Queers in History, begs
to differ.
Stern
writes: "My interpretation of the early biographical material
is that Deborah Sampson was a very masculine young girl, who
enjoyed taking on the male role throughout her early life. She was
so unwilling to get married that she chose to dress as a man and
joined the army, where she found herself very attractive to other
women. She reciprocated their attentions passionately, and
treasured the memory of her romantic affairs with women.
“She
participated in a marriage with a young white girl, ostensibly to
liberate her from Indians, and she continued the relationship,
with passionate attachment, long after it was necessary to obtain
the girl’s freedom."
In
early 1782, Sampson wore men's clothes and joined an Army unit in
Middleborough, Massachusetts, under the name Timothy Thayer. She
was been recognized by a local resident at the time she signed her
enlistment papers and had to resign.
Her
deception uncovered, she repaid the portion of the enlistment
bonus that she had not spent, but was not subjected to further
punishment by the Army. The Baptist church to which she belonged
learned of her actions and its members refused to associate with
her unless she apologized and asked forgiveness.
In
May 1782, Sampson enlisted again, this time in Uxbridge,
Massachusetts under the name "Robert Shirtliff" She
joined the Light Infantry Company of the 4th Massachusetts
Regiment, under the command of Captain George Webb (1740–1825).
Light Infantry Companies were elite troops, specially picked
because they were taller and stronger than average. Because she
joined an elite unit, Sampson's disguise was more likely to
succeed, since no one was likely to look for a woman among
soldiers who were specially chosen for their above average size
and superior physical ability.
Sampson
fought in several skirmishes. During her first battle, on July 3,
1782 outside Tarrytown, New York, she took two musket balls in her
thigh and sustained a cut on her forehead. She begged her fellow
soldiers to let her die and not take her to a doctor (out of fear
she'd be discovered), but a soldier put her on his horse and took
her to a hospital. The doctors treated her head wound, but she
left the hospital before they could attend to her leg. Fearful
that her identity would be discovered, she removed one of the
balls herself with a penknife and sewing needle, but the other one
was too deep for her to reach. She carried one of the musket balls
for the rest of her life.
On
April 1, 1783, she was reassigned to new duties, and spent seven
months serving as a waiter to General John Paterson. During that
summer, Sampson became ill in Philadelphia and was cared for by
Doctor Barnabas Binney. He removed her clothes to treat her and
discovered the cloth she used to bind her breasts. Without
revealing his discovery to army authorities, he took her to his
house, where his wife, daughters, and a nurse took care of her.
Following
the war being over, November 3 1783 was set as the date for
soldiers to muster out. When Dr. Binney asked Sampson to deliver a
note to General Paterson, she correctly assumed that it would
reveal her gender. In other cases, women who pretended to be men
to serve in the army were reprimanded, but Paterson gave her a
discharge, a note with some words of advice, and enough money to
travel home. She was honorably
discharged at West Point, New York, on
October 25, 1783, after a year and a half of service.
In
January 1792, Sampson petitioned the Massachusetts State
Legislature for pay which the army had withheld from her because
she was a woman. The legislature granted her petition and Governor
John Hancock signed it. The legislature awarded her 34 pounds plus
interest back to her discharge in 1783.
In
1802, Sampson
began giving lectures about her wartime service. She wisely began
by extolling the virtues of traditional gender roles for women,
but toward the end of her presentation she left the stage,
returned dressed in her army uniform, and then performed a
complicated and physically taxing military drill and ceremony
routine.
She
performed both to earn money and to justify her enlistment, but
even with these speaking engagements, she was not making enough
money to pay her expenses. She frequently had to borrow money from
her friend Paul Revere.
Revere
wrote letters to government officials on her behalf, requesting
that she be awarded a pension for her military service and her
wounds. A military pension had never been requested for a woman.
Revere wrote: "I have been induced to enquire her situation,
and character, since she quit the male habit, and soldiers
uniform; for the more decent apparel of her own gender...humanity
and justice obliges me to say, that every person with whom I have
conversed about her, and it is not a few, speak of her as a woman
with handsome talents and good morals."
On
March 11, 1805, Congress approved the request and placed Sampson
on the Massachusetts Invalid Pension Roll at the rate of four
dollars a month.
In
1809, she sent another petition to Congress, asking that her
pension be modified to start from her discharge in 1783. Had her
petition been approved, she would have been awarded back pay of
$960 — approximately $13,800 in today's money ($48 a year for 20
years). Her petition was denied, but when it came before Congress
again in 1816 an award of $76.80 a year (about $1,100) was
approved. With this amount, she was able to repay all her loans
and make improvements to her farm.
Sampson
died of yellow fever at the age of 66 on April 29, 1827, and was
buried at Rock Ridge Cemetery in Sharon, Massachusetts.
The
town of Sharon now memorializes Sampson with a statue in front of
the public library, the Deborah Sampson Park, and the "Deborah
Sampson Gannett House,"
In
1906, the town of Plympton, Massachusetts, with the Deborah
Sampson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
placed a boulder on the town green, with a bronze plaque inscribed
to Sampson's memory.
During
World War II, the Liberty Ship S.S. Deborah Gannett (2620) was
named in her honor. It was laid down March 10, 1944, launched
April 10, 1944.
As
of 2000, the town flag of Plympton incorporates Sampson as the
Official Heroine of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Sampson's
life was full of examples of her courage and compulsion to sacrifice,
or at least risk, her own safety and well-being so that others might
live and flourish.
As
to her sexuality, no one alive can say. Yet she was undeniably a
cross-dresser, so she is to be included as a hero.
