Footnotes and Further Reading

Moses Harvey

1723-1795
Footnote # 1

Genealogical information in this character narrative is from John Montague Smith, Henry Walbridge Taft and Abbie Talitha Montague, History of the Town of Sunderland Massachusetts, 1673-1899 (Greenfield, Mass., Press of E.A. Hall & Co., 1899)

Footnote # 2

Ibid., 118

Footnote # 3

Robert Taylor, Western Massachusetts in the Revolution (New York: Kraus Reprint, 1967), 62-64.

Footnote # 4

Amelia Miller and A.R. Riggs, eds., Romance, Remedies, and Revolution : the Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1773-1775 (Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press ; Deerfield [Mass.] : Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 2007), 112.

Footnote # 5

Ibid. 114

Footnote # 6

Ibid. 122

Footnote # 7

Quoted in Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) 14; also Robert Treat Paine papers, bills of indictment, Massachusetts Historical Society. For a discussion of the fiscal policies that stimulated Moses' outburst, see "From the Labours of Others": The War Bonds Controversy and the Origins of the Constitution in New England, The William and Mary Quarterly , Vol. 61, No. 2 (Apr., 2004), pp. 271-316.

Footnote # 8

Hampshire Gazette, April 25, 1787.

Footnote # 9

Edward Pearson Pressey, The History of Montague (Montague, Mass. : New Clairvaux Press, 1910), 134


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, pg. 904.

Miller, Amelia and Riggs, A.R, eds. Romance, Remedies, and Revolution : the Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1773-1775. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press ; Deerfield [Mass.]: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 2007.

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

Sheldon, George. History of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Deerfield, MA: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1895.

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

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