1. Nancy Hart is characterized as a tough, strong and resourceful frontier woman who repeatedly outsmarted Tory soldiers, and killed some outright.
20 Facts About Nancy Hart
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Nancy Hart's extended family's descendants included such famous later political figures as Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton and Kentucky Senator Henry Clay.
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Nancy Hart was well connected through family ties to other prominent figures in early American history.
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Nancy Hart was rough-hewn and rawboned, with red hair and a face scarred by smallpox.
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Nancy Hart was said to have a feisty personal demeanor characterized by a hotheaded temper, a fearless spirit, and a penchant for exacting vengeance upon those who offended her or harmed her family and friends.
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The soldiers demanded that Nancy Hart cook them one of her turkeys, and she agreed to feed them.
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Nancy Hart held the remaining Tories captive until her husband and neighbors arrived.
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Mrs Louisa H Kendall was the niece of John Hart, the son whom Nancy lived with in later life.
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Undaunted, Nancy Hart picked up the heavy bag and walked the rest of the way to the mill.
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Nancy Hart was said to have acted as a sniper, killing Tories as they came across the Broad River.
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Nancy Hart said that one time during the war, Nancy was cooking lye soap in her cabin when her daughter discovered a spy looking through a crack in the wall.
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Nancy Hart threw a ladle of the boiling soap into the spy's eyes, went outside and tied him up, and turned him over to the local Patriot militia.
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Two accounts say that Nancy Hart dressed as a man in order to enter Tory camps, where she could overhear talk and observe the layouts and other elements of military value.
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Nancy Hart went to the house of worship in search of relief.
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Nancy Hart found the good people assembled in class meeting, and the door closed against intruders.
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Nancy Hart took out her knife, cut the fastening and stalked in.
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Nancy Hart heard how the wicked might work out their salvation; became a shouting Christian, fought the devil as manfully as she fought the Tories.
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Nancy Hart returned to the settlement on the Broad River but found that a flood had washed away their former cabin.
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Around 1803 John Nancy Hart took his mother and family to Henderson County, Kentucky, where they settled again near relatives.
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Nancy Hart was buried in the Hart family cemetery a few miles outside of Henderson.