Footnotes and Further Reading

James Bowdoin

1726-1790
Footnote # 1

Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press) 2002, 85.

Footnote # 2

Ibid., 13.

Footnote # 3

Hampshire Gazette, September 13, 1786.

Footnote # 4

Ibid.

Footnote # 5

Ibid.

Footnote # 6

Richards, Shays's Rebellion, p. 31.

Footnote # 7

Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, ed. Worthington C. Ford et al. (Washington, D.C., 1904-37), 32:93-95.

Footnote # 8

Ibid.

Footnote # 9

Ibid.

Footnote # 10

"General Courts Declaration that horrid and unnatural Rebellion exists within this Commonwealth," February 4, 1787, MA State Archives, 189: 108-9; Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, ed. Worthington C. Ford et al. (Washington, D.C., 1904-37), 32:93-95.

Footnote # 11

Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 41; Marion Starkey, A Littler Rebellion, (NY: Alfred A. Knopf) 1951, 237-39.

Footnote # 12

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), 4: 1155.


Further Reading

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.

Kershaw, Gordon E., James Bowdoin II: Patriot and Man of the Enlightenment. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991.

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.