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Nancy Morgan Hart (c. 1735–1830) was a rebel heroine of the American Revolutionary War, noted for her exploits against Loyalists in the northeast Georgia backcountry. She is characterized as a tough, strong and resourceful frontier woman who repeatedly outsmarted Tory soldiers, and killed some outright.
Nancy Hart was a Patriot spy and frontierswoman who fought against the British in the Revolutionary War. Learn about her life, exploits, and legacy in Georgia and Kentucky.
Nancy Morgan Hart was a Revolutionary era woman who became an American legend as her story was shared and embellished in 19th century publications.
Nancy Hart (born c. 1735, Pennsylvania or North Carolina [U.S.]—died 1830, Kentucky) was an American Revolutionary heroine around whom gathered numerous stories of patriotic adventure and resourcefulness. Ann Morgan grew up in the colony of North Carolina.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
A true heroine of the American Revolution, Nancy Hart was a larger-than-life personality who became a patriotic legend. Nancy Ann Morgan, was born in 1747 in North Carolina. Nancy was six feet tall with a muscular build and folklore describes her as having red hair, crossed eyes and a small pox scarred face.
This person was Nancy Hart, a Woman entirely uneducated, and ignorant of all the conventional civilities of life, but a zealous lover of liberty and of the “liberty boys,” as she called the whigs.
Nancy Morgan Hart is the only woman to have a Georgia county named for her. Hart County was carved from Elbert, Franklin and Wilkes counties in 1853 to honor the legendary frontierswoman. Nancy was born in North Carolina some time around 1735.
