Footnotes and Further Reading

Everyday Life - A Bloody Encounter

Militia Men and Regulators: Who was at the Arsenal?
Footnote # 1

Betsey Pendergast Carlisle, Earthbound and Heavenbent: the Life of Elizabeth Porter Phelps and Life at Forty Acres, 1747-1817, New York: Scribner, 2004, 114.

Footnote # 2

Journals of Park Holland, Petersham Historical Society.

Footnote # 3

Petition from the Town of Grafton, 27 January 1787, Shays' Rebellion Collection, American Antiquarian Society; Petition from the Town of Hopkinton, 1 February 1787, Shays' Rebellion Collection, American Antiquarian Society.