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1. amomipais82
   

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   Nancy Morgan Hart (c. 1735 – 1830) was a heroine of the American Revolutionary War whose exploits against Loyalists in the Georgia backcountry are the stuff of legend. Because stories about her are mostly unsupported by contemporary documentation, it is impossible to entirely distinguish fact from folklore.
   
   According to the most famous story about her, during the Revolution a group of "Tory" soldiers (5 or 6) came by her house either looking for food or a Whig they were pursuing. The soldiers demanded that she cook them one of the turkeys in her yard before they left. She sent her daughter to the well for water and secretly instructed her to blow a conch shell to warn her husband and neighbors.
   
   She agreed to feed the Tory soldiers. As they entered the cabin, they placed their guns by the door and sat down at her table to eat. As they were drinking and eating, she was pushing their guns through a hole in the wall of her log cabin. After they had been drinking a sufficient time, she grabbed one of the remaining guns and threatened the men not to move. One ignored her and she killed him. Another made a move toward the weapons and was also killed by Hart. The remaining Tories were held captive until her husband, Benjamin Hart, and neighbors arrived. According to legend, her husband wanted to shoot the soldiers, but she demanded they hang. They were hanged on a nearby tree.
   
   Construction crews working on the Elberton and Eastern Railroad in the area in 1912 seemed to have validated this story.[1] While grading a railroad site less than a mile from the old Hart Cabin, the workers found five or six skeletons buried neatly in a row. They were estimated to have been buried for at least a century.
   
   Hart was creating folklore and legend before her escapades during the Revolutionary War. According to folklore, the local Indians called her "Wahatche" which could have meant "War Woman" and named a creek for her.
   
   Nancy Hart was born in 1735 according to her gravestone; however, some sources also state that she was born in the 1740s. She is believed to have been born in North Carolina near the Yadkin River Valley. Some accounts say the place of her birth is Pennsylvania. She married Benjamin Hart and gave birth to eight children. Sometime in the 1770s, the family moved to the Broad River Settlement, which is currently Elbert County, Georgia, and the episode with the Tories occurred while the Hart Family resided here. A replica of her home is located in Bobby Brown State Park in southern Elbert County. During the late 1790s, the Harts moved to Brunswick, Georgia. Benjamin Hart died soon afterward. Nancy moved to Clarke County, Georgia to live with her son, John. In 1803, the family moved to Henderson County, Kentucky, and Hart spent the remainder of her life there. She was buried in the Hart Family Cemetery in Henderson County after her death.

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