Footnotes and Further Reading

Jason Parmenter

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Footnote # 1

Randall Conrad, "A Captain with the Insurgents," from Martin Kaufmann, ed, Shays' Rebellion: Selected Essays. (Intro by Larry Lowenthal) (Westfield: 1987).

Footnote # 2

Ibid; Lucy Cutler Kellogg, History of the Town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts. 1736-1900 (Greenfield, MA: 1902), p. 459; George Sheldon, History of Deerfield (Deerfield: 1895-96), Vol. II, p. 709.

Footnote # 3

Conrad, "A Captain with the Insurgents", 68.

Footnote # 4

Jason Parmenter, quoted in Ibid., 69.

Footnote # 5

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Vol. II, 725.s

Footnote # 6

Kellogg, History of Bernardston, 73, 458.

Footnote # 7

Leonard L. Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia: 2002) 68-74.

Footnote # 8

Kellogg, History of Bernardston, p. 458; Conrad, "A Captain with the Insurgents", 69.

Footnote # 9

Conrad, "A Captain with the Insurgents"

Footnote # 10

Ibid, p. 458; May 11, 1787 "Petition for the reprieve of Jason Parmenter of Bernardston" Massachusetts State Archives; May 9, 1787 "Petition to his Excellency James Bowdoin Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" on behalf of Jason Parmenter, Mass State Archives, 189:351; Conrad, p. 73.

Footnote # 11

Hampshire Gazette, June 27, 1787.

Footnote # 12

Conrad, "A Captain with the Insurgents", 74; Richards, Shays's Rebellion, pp. 40-41.

Footnote # 13

Ibid. For a dramatic recounting of this incident, see Marion Starkey, A Little Rebellion, (New York: Knopf, 1955), 216

Footnote # 14

Ibid.; Richards, p. 41.

Footnote # 15

John Warner Barber, Historical Collections, Being a General Collection of Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes etc. (Worcester: 1839) p. 261; Hampshire Gazette


Further Reading

Conrad, Randall. "A Captain with the Insurgents," from Martin Kaufmann, ed, Shays' Rebellion: Selected Essays. (Intro by Larry Lowenthal) (Westfield: 1987).

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

Kellogg, Lucy Jane Cutler. The History of the Town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1736-1900. Greenfield, 1902.

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.

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