Nancy was making soap at the time and threw a ladle full of boiling soap through the crack, scalding the man. In one incident her daughter noticed a Tory spying on the family through a hole in the wall. Nancy was determined to rid the area of Tories, who made frequent stops at the Hart cabin, keeping a close eye on the patriotic woman. She would dress as a man and enter Tory camps and British garrisons pretending to be feeble-minded in order to gain information, which she subsequently passed along to the Patriots. Nancy managed to sneak away periodically to work as a spy. During most of the war years, Hart was alone on the frontier with her children, while her husband served as a lieutenant in the Georgia militia under Elijah Clarke, who led frontier guerrillas and inflicted a heavy toll on the British and Loyalists.
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