Footnotes and Further Reading

Benjamin Lincoln

1733-1810
Footnote # 1

For biographical information on Benjamin Lincoln, see David B. Mattern, Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.)

Footnote # 2

Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979), 282-83; for martial music and customs during the Revolution, see Raoul F. Camus, Military Music of the American Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976)

Footnote # 3

For a description of the Newburgh Conspiracy, see Royster, A Revolutionary People, 331-38.

Footnote # 4

Ibid., 353; Henry Russell Drowne, A Sketch of Fraunces Tavern and Those Connected with its History (NY: 1919), 18.

Footnote # 5

"Resolves of the Society of the Cincinnati," October 11, 1786, reprinted in the Worcester Magazine, 1787.

Footnote # 6

Ibid.

Footnote # 7

Benjamin Lincoln to George Washington, December 4, 1786, Benjamin Lincoln Papers, Gilder-Lehrman Collection.

Footnote # 8

Ibid.

Footnote # 9

Ibid.

Footnote # 10

George Richards Minot, History of the insurrections in Massachusetts in 1786 and of the rebellion consequent thereon (NY: Da Capo Press, 1971), 102. First published in Worcester in 1788, the Da Capo press reprinted an edition originally printed in Boston, 1810.

Footnote # 11

William Shepard to James Bowdoin, January 26 1787, Shepard Papers, Memorial Libraries, Historic Deerfield,

Footnote # 12

Benjamin Lincoln to Daniel Shays, January 30, 1787, in Ibid., 119.

Footnote # 13

Minot, History of the Insurrections, 131-34.

Footnote # 14

Commendation for Benjamin Lincoln, March 3, 1787, Massachusetts Archives, 189: 170.

Footnote # 15

Minot, History of the Insurrections, 118.

Footnote # 16

"Report of Commissioners Appointed to Promise Pardon to Certain Offenders" Massachusetts Archives Collection, Records,189: 277, MA.


Further Reading

Mattern, David B. Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.

Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Minot, George Richards. History of the insurrections in Massachusetts in 1786 and of the rebellion consequent thereon. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971). First published in Worcester in 1788, this Da Capo press reprinted an edition originally printed in Boston, 1810.

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

Royster, Charles, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979.

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

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