Footnotes and Further Reading

Henry Knox

1755-1806
Footnote # 1

North Callahan, Henry Knox: George Washington's General (New York: Rinehart, 1958); Alan Taylor, Liberty Men and Great proprietors (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990), 37-9.

Footnote # 2

Knox to Washington, October 23, 1786, Papers of George Washington: Confederation Series, Abbott, et al.

Footnote # 3

Ibid

Footnote # 4

William Shepard to Henry Knox, January 12, 1787, Shepard Papers, Memorial Libraries, Historic Deerfield; William Shepard to James Bowdoin, January 19, 1787, Ibid.; Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 28; William Shepard to Henry Knox, 1790, Shepard Papers.

Footnote # 5

Henry Knox to Jeremiah Wadsworth, Wadsworth Correspondence, Jeremiah Wadsworth Collection, Connecticut Historical Society.


Further Reading

Callahan, North. Henry Knox: George Washington's General. New York: Rinehart, 1958.

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

Taylor, Alan. Liberty Men and Great Proprietors: The Revolutionary Settlement on the Maine Frontier, 1760-1820.

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

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