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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On a transport ship in Portsmouth, a sergeant uncovers that soldier Paul Daniel is a woman who enlisted to find her husband, lost in Germany after squandering their fortune. The commanding officer aids her quest with money and permission to join the troops.
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Last Monday as a Serjeant was exercising some of the Soldiers on board a Transport at Portsmouth, he observed one of them, named Paul Daniel, had a more prominent chest than ordinary. After the exercisings were over, he sent for the person to the cabin, when, telling him his suspicions, that he was a woman, and insisting upon searching him, after some evasions, the soldier confessed her sex.
The account she gave of herself was, that having a husband whom she loved dearly, and who after spending a plentiful fortune, by which means they were both reduced to beggary, enlisted in a marching regiment, and had been in Germany two years. Having not heard from him all that time, she was determined to range the world in search of him; and being informed that we were sending more troops over, she entered as a soldier, and was now inconsolable that the discovery of her sex should prevent her design.
The commanding officer being made acquainted with the affair, and the woman pressing him to let her go with them, in order to set her husband, he generously gave her five guineas to buy herself cloaths suitable to her sex and assured her that she should go along with them.
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Portsmouth
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Last Monday
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A woman disguised as soldier Paul Daniel is discovered by a sergeant on a transport ship in Portsmouth. She explains she enlisted to search for her husband, who had spent their fortune, become a beggar, and gone to Germany two years prior without contact. Inconsolable at the revelation preventing her quest, she pleads with the commanding officer, who gives her five guineas for clothes and assures her she can go along.