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Dear Friend: Diaries and Correspondence
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- Charles Sigourney to John Williams Regarding Ginseng Root
- 1784
- This letter is an appeal for payment of a debt owed by Messrs. Williams and Upham of Deerfield.
- Cynthia (Williams) Leffingwell to Mary (Polly) Ashley
- 1786
- In this letter written from Norwich, Vermont, Cynthia (Williams) Leffingwell anxiously asks her younger sister for news about the state of affairs in Massachusetts.
- David Hoyt to his Father, Regarding Shays' Rebellion
- 1787
- In this letter to his father, 30 year-old David Hoyt, Jr., describes the encounter at the Springfield Arsenal between the Massachusetts militia and the Regulators.
- David Humphreys to Governor Huntington Regarding Resignations
- December 18, 1786
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- Diary of Justus Forward
- 1786
- Justus Forward (1730-1814) recorded in his journal his observations of the Massachusetts Regulation, including the practice among the Regulators of wearing "green bushes in their hats" as a symbol of their solidarity and resistance to government.
- Ebenezer Mattoon to Thomas Cushing Regarding Henry McCulloch
- 1787
- General Ebenezer Mattoon, justice of the peace in Amherst, wrote to Governor Bowdoin that Henry was just a "tool of the rebel leaders..."
- Excerpts from the Journal of Park Holland
- 1834
- Captain Park Holland wrote this reminiscence account of Shays' Rebellion in 1834.
- Excerpts from the Journal of Sarah Howe, volume 1
- 1801
- Sarah Howe, of Petersham, Massachusetts, wrote a journal with her reniniscences of the Revolution and the years following it.
- George Washingon to Benj. Lincoln Regarding "these commotions"
- November 7, 1786
- Letter to Benjamin Lincoln from George Washington asking for a report on Shays' Rebellion.
- Henry Knox to Jeremiah Wadsworth Regarding the "Insurgency"
- March 24, 1787
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- Huntington to Bowdoin Regarding the Insurgency
- February 20, 1787
- In this letter the Governor of Connecticut, Samuel Huntington, congratulates Massachusetts Governor James Bowdoin on the outcome of the incident at the Springfield Arsenal.
- Jonathan Judd, Jr., Diary Entry
- January, 1787
- Pages from Jonathan Judd's diary offer a glimpse into the tumultuous events in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, during the month of January, 1787.
- Seth Catlin to James Stewart Regarding Oaths
- 1787
- This letter to James Stewart of Colrain, Massachusetts, from Seth Catlin, advises Stewart to make sure that Regulators who have not yet taken the oath, come to Greenfield on that day.
- William Shepard to James Bowdoin
- September 17, 1786
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- William Shepard to James Bowdoin Regarding Events at the Arsenal
- 1787
- General William Shepard of Westfield, Massachusetts, describes the action at the United States Arsenal at Springfield, including his decision to use Arsenal artillery to disperse the approaching Regulators.
- William Shepard to James Hancock Regarding "plundering"
- July 2, 1787
- Coming soon.