For a discussion of 18th century assumptions concerning the nature of mass movements, see Gordon S. Wood, "Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 39 (1982): 401-406.
Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 19-20; Marion L. Starkey, A Little Rebellion, (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1955), 51-2; Samuel Abbott Green, An historical sketch of Groton, Massachusetts, 1655-1890 (s.n: 1894), 110.
Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 20; Starkey, 42.
George Richards Minot, The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Six and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon (Worcester, 788), 42.
Starkey, A Little Rebellion, 55.
Proclamation by Governor James Bowdoin, September 2, 1786, printed in the Hampshire Gazette September 13, 1786.
David P. Szatmary, Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), 83; Minot, The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts, 65-6.
Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 20-21; Minot, History of the Insurrections, 78-79 ; Starkey, A Little Rebellion, 100-101.
Minot, History of the Insurrection, 79.
"Pegasus of Apollo," 1787, Worcester Magazine, Memorial Libraries, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.
Starkey, Little Rebellion, 101.
Order of Confinement for Job Shattuck, Oliver Parker and Benjamin Page, Massachusetts State Archives, 189: 49
Starkey, 101.
Ibid., 183; Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 35.
Verdict for Job Shattuck and Oliver Parker, Massachusetts State Archives, 189: 389-91
Ibid.
Reprieve for Job Shattuck, Massachusetts State Archives, 190:10
Samuel Adams, quoted in William Pencak, "Samuel Adams and Shays' Rebellion," The New England Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 1 (March, 1989): 64.
Starkey, Little Rebellion, 233.
Ibid. 237.
Green, An Historical sketch of Groton, Massachusetts, 1655-1890 (s.n: 1894), 13.
Green, Samuel Abbott. An historical sketch of Groton, Massachusetts, 1655-1890. s.n: 1894.
Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.
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.
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