Sarah Osborn And The Bullets Would Not Cheat The Gallows

Who is Sarah Osborn and why is she important? This primary source analysis will provide information about Osborn and what she did in order for us to briefly answer these two important questions. This primary source is referenced as Sarah Osborn, â€Å"The bullets would not cheat the gallows†¦Ã¢â‚¬  This is Sarah Osborn’s deposition before the Court of Common Pleas in Wayne County, New Jersey, in 1837 but was excerpted from The Revolution Remembered: Eyewitness Accounts of the American Revolution, ed. John C. Dann in 1980. Prior to this class and primary source I never even heard of Sarah Osborn, but after reading this deposition I obtained an understanding of who she was. This deposition was originally intended for the court, as it was Osborn’s testimony of her and her husband’s experiences in the Revolutionary war in order to claim their veteran pensions. However, John C. Dann decided to excerpt this deposition for the general public specifically focusing on historians and women for the purpose of explaining women’s unaccredited participation in the Revolutionary war, using Sarah Osborn’s personal testimony as a prime example. Sarah Osborn decided to testify before the Court of Common Pleas in New Jersey in 1837 because Congress had made it possible for Revolutionary war veterans to claim their pensions and she felt she was obligated to receive her pension for her actions during the war. In her deposition, Osborn explains all the dangerous duties she performed on the battlefield whenShow MoreRelatedA Woman’s Retrospective of the American Revolution Essay2537 Words   |  11 PagesSarah Benjamin went before the deposition on the twentieth day of November, 1837 in the Court of Common Pleas of Wayne County, Pennsylvania. This deposition intended to validate claims for receiving pension benefits owed to Mrs. Benjamin from a previous marriage; an Aaron Osborn, veteran of the Revolutionary War. Her case founded itself on the numerous acts of Congress over the previous decade--in particular the Comprehensive Pension Act of 1832 and subsequent acts of Congress from July 4, 1836