Footnotes and Further Reading

Agrippa Wells

1738-1809
Footnote # 1

George Sheldon, History of Deerfield Deerfield: 1895-96), vol. II, p. 361. For mobilization of Massachusetts men during the French and Indian War, see Fred Anderson, A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Year's War (Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press) 1984.

Footnote # 2

Stephen Brumwell, White Devil: A True Story of War, Savagery, and Vengeance in Colonial America (Cambridge: Da Capo Press) 2004.

Footnote # 3

"An Account of the Remarkable Occurrences in the Life and Travels of Colonel James Smith (Late a Citizen of Bourbon county, Kentucky) During his Captivity with the Indians, in the Years 1755, '56, '57, '58 & '59. Philadelphia: J. Grigg, 1831, pgs. 228 & 229

Footnote # 4

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, vo. II, p. 361.

Footnote # 5

Abstract of Muster Rolls, 24:103, Massachusetts State Archives.

Footnote # 6

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, vo. II, p. 361.

Footnote # 7

Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), p. 146.

Footnote # 8

Ibid.

Footnote # 9

Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), pp. 144-47.

Footnote # 10

Bernardston and Leyden, Hampshire County, 26 November, Town Meeting and Instructions, 26 November in John P. Kaminski, Gaspare J. Saladino, Richard Leffler, Charles H. Schoenleber and Margaret A. Hogan eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Ratification of the States: Massachusetts (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1986-2007), vol. 4, pg. 904.

Footnote # 11

Ibid.

Footnote # 12

"Ratification of the Federal Constitution by Massachusetts" Hampshire Gazette, February 13, 1788, in www.americancenturies.mass.edu, Digital Collection, L04.111.

Footnote # 13

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, vol. II, p. 361.


Further Reading

The Conservative Rebel: A Social History of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Greenfield, MA: The Town, 1982.

Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993

Kaminski, John P., Saladino, Gaspare J., Leffler, Richard, Schoenleber, Charles H. and Margaret A. Hogan eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Ratification of the States: Massachusetts vol. 4, pg. 904.

Kellogg, Lucy Jane and Thompson, Francis M. History of Greenfield shire town of Franklin County, Massachusetts

Richards, Leonard. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Deerfield, MA: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1895.

Starkey, Marion L. A Little Rebellion. New York, Knopf, 1955.

Taylor, Robert F. Western Massachusetts in the Revolution. Providence: Brown University Press, 1954.