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Shays Rebellion pro-Regulator accounts and witnesses to the suppression of the rebellion
 

Accounts by those at the scene of the march on Springfield Arsenal, January 25th, 1787, and in the days following, arranged by month and year:

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Daniel Shays to Selectmen of South Hadley, Oct 23rd, 1786

Capt. Thomas Grover and Lieut. Elisha Pondell to Capt. Harvey requesting assistance, Dec 2, 1786

John Powers to People of Deerfield, Dec 9th, 1786

Letter from Cynthia Williams to Mary (Polly) Ashley, Dec 18, 1786

Luke Day and Daniel Shays to Springfield Court, Dec 26th, 1786

 

Shays, Powers, Dickinson, Bordwell, and Billings to Capt. John Brown, Whately, Jan 15th, 1787.

Israel Williams to his son William, Jan 15th, 1787

Newspaper report of Militia and rebel movements, Jan 24th, 1787

Capt. Luke Day to Gen. William Shepard, Jan 25th, 1787

Capt. Luke Day to Capt. Daniel Shays, Jan 25th, 1787

Capt. Shays to Gen. Lincoln, Jan. 25th, 1787

Capt. Daniel Shays to Gen. William Shepard, Jan. 26th, 1787

David Hoyt to his father David Hoyt, Jan. 26th, 1787

General Shepard to Governor Bowdoin, Jan. 26th, 1787

Provision Return of Col. Joseph Stebbin's Regiment, Jan. 24th, 25th, & 26th, 1787

Capt. Shays to Gen. Shepard, Jan. 27th, 1787

Gen. Benjamin Lincoln to Gov. Bowdoin, Jan. 27th, 1787

Gen. Benjamin Lincoln to Gen. Henry Knox, Jan. 28th, 1787

Gen. Benjamin Lincoln to Gov. James Bowdoin, Jan. 28th, 1787

James Jarvis to Gen. Henry Knox, Jan. 29th, 1787

Gen. Lincoln to insurgents, Jan. 29th, 1787

Anonymous letter from a gentleman in Gen. Lincoln’s army, with correspondence between Shays and Lincoln, Jan. 30th-31st, 1787

Town of Granby to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, Jan. 31st, 1787

 

Gen. Benjamin Lincoln to Town of Granby, Feb. 1st, 1787

Capt. Samuel Buffington testimony, Feb. 1st, 1787

Joshua Woodbridge testimony, Feb. 1st, 1787

Doc. W. Suttler to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, Feb. 1st, 1787

“Massachusetts Soldiery” response to Lincoln’s address to Soc of Cincinnati (of Oct 11, 1786), published Feb 1787

Capt. William Lyman testimony, Feb. 6th, 1787

Capt. Eli Parsons to populace in Berkshires, Feb. 13th, 1787

Judah Marsh confession, Feb. 14th, 1787

Gen. William Shepard to Selectmen of Colrain, Feb. 15th, 1787

Rubin Graves’s Oath of Allegiance, Feb. 17th, 1787

Seth Catlin to Lt. James Stewart, Colrain, Feb. 20th, 1787

List of Colrain rebels 1786 & 1787

John Chaloner to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, Feb. 21st, 1787.

 

Ballad of Pegasus of Apollo, March 1787

Bill from Deerfield Selectmen for Military Supplies used in Shays' Rebellion, Mar. 12th, 1787

 

Oath of Allegiance [Faith], Apr. 8th, 1787

Gen. William Shepard pay-roll report for 4th Division, Massachusetts Militia, April 23, 1787

 

Gen. William Shepard to Gov. John Hancock, July 2nd, 1787

 

Receipt of Caleb Phillips for his firearm, Dec. 4, 1787

 

Military Firearm Log for Shays' Rebellion, Feb. 24, 1788

 

Daniel Stebbins reminisces of Shays’s Rebellion, written 1845

 
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George Washington’s ally, Seneca chief Tanacharison-also known as The Half King, complained that Washington “was a good-natured man but had no experience.” When referring to the fort the Half King said Washington “made no Fortifications at all, but that little thing upon the Meadow.”

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