Veteran's Pension Petition to Congress from Daniel Shays

To the Senate and House of Representatives of the
united States in Congress assembled

Humbly Shew Daniel Shays of Pelham in the County
of Hampshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
that on the nineteenth Day of April in the year of our
Lord 1775, your Petitioner Entred into the Service
of the united States, and held the Commission of a
Lieutenant in the Army which encamped near
Boston in the Same year, and held the Rank
of a Lieutenant in the Same Service, until January
in the year 1777, at which Time he was Appointed
to a Captaincy in the Same, and continued to hold
the Same Rank, and continued in the Service untill
the fourteenth Day of October in the year of our
Lord 1780. and then was discharged at his own particu-
ler Regret ___your Petitioner, begs Leave to alledge
in his own Behalf that during the whole Time of his
Service, he conducted with Fidelity, and Reputation and
attended to his Duty with the greatest Circumspection and
Dilligence; for the Truth of which Allegation he appeals
to all his Superiors in the Army, and all other Persons
to whom his Conduct was known; that for --- the
^three last years of Said Service, the Difficulties of which he need not discribe,
he received no Compensation Except what was made in a
depreciated Currency; that in the year 1775, he received
a Wound, in the Service, and by means thereof has Ever
Since, been unable to labour; and that he hath a large