Footnotes and Further Reading

Luke Day

1743-1801
Footnote # 1

Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of Robert Day, of Hartford, CT (Northampton, MA: J&L Metcalf Publisher, 1858), pp. 26-27.

Footnote # 2

Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), p. 49.

Footnote # 3

Munroe Stearns. Shays' Rebellion: 1786-7: Americans Take Up Arms Against Unjust Laws. (New York, Franklin Watts, Inc., 1968), p.13.

Footnote # 4

Richards, Shays's Rebellion, p. 46.

Footnote # 5

Ibid., p. 48.

Footnote # 6

Ibid., p. 49.

Footnote # 7

Ibid., pp. 49-50.

Footnote # 8

Quoted in Stearns, Shays' Rebellion, p.19.

Footnote # 9

Stearns, Shays' Rebellion, pp. 20-22.

Footnote # 10

Richards, Shays's Rebellion, p. 9.

Footnote # 11

Ibid., p.102

Footnote # 12

Quoted in John H. Lockwood, Western Massachusetts: A History: 1636-1925, volume 1. (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926), p. 131.

Footnote # 13

Quoted in Richards, Shays's Rebellion, pp.103-104.

Footnote # 14

Quoted in Lockwood, p.171.

Footnote # 15

Stearns, Shays' Rebellion, p.51.

Footnote # 16

Quoted in Michael Paulin. The Ballad of Daniel Shays. (Athol, MA: Transcript Press, 1986), p.92.

Footnote # 17

Swift, West Springfield Massachusetts: A Town History p.40.


Further Reading

Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of Robert Day of Hartford, Connecticut, 2nd edition. Northampton, MA: J & L Metcalf, 1848.

Green, Mason A. Springfield 1636-1886: History of Town and City. Springfield, MA: C.A. Nichols & Co., Publishers, 1888.

Gross, Robert, ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion, volume 65. Boston, MA: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1993.

Lockwood, John H. Western Massachusetts: A History: 1636-1925, volume 1. New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, Inc., 1926.

Moses King. King’s Handbook of Springfield, MA: A Series of Monographs. Springfield, MA: James D. Gill, Publisher, 1884.

Paulin, Michael. The Ballad of Daniel Shays. Athol, MA: Transcript Press, 1986.

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

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

Satzmary, David. Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

Stearns, Munroe. Shays’ Rebellion: 1786-7: Americans Take Up Arms Against Unjust Laws. New York: Franklin Watts, Inc., 1968.

Swift, Esther M. West Springfield Massachusetts: A Town History. Springfield, MA: The West Springfield Heritage Association, 1969.