For biographical information on Benjamin Lincoln, see David B. Mattern, Benjamin Lincoln and the American Revolution. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995.)
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)
For a description of the Newburgh Conspiracy, see Royster, A Revolutionary People, 331-38.
Ibid., 353; Henry Russell Drowne, A Sketch of Fraunces Tavern and Those Connected with its History (NY: 1919), 18.
"Resolves of the Society of the Cincinnati," October 11, 1786, reprinted in the Worcester Magazine, 1787.
Ibid.
Benjamin Lincoln to George Washington, December 4, 1786, Benjamin Lincoln Papers, Gilder-Lehrman Collection.
Ibid.
Ibid.
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.
William Shepard to James Bowdoin, January 26 1787, Shepard Papers, Memorial Libraries, Historic Deerfield,
Benjamin Lincoln to Daniel Shays, January 30, 1787, in Ibid., 119.
Minot, History of the Insurrections, 131-34.
Commendation for Benjamin Lincoln, March 3, 1787, Massachusetts Archives, 189: 170.
Minot, History of the Insurrections, 118.
"Report of Commissioners Appointed to Promise Pardon to Certain Offenders" Massachusetts Archives Collection, Records,189: 277, MA.
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.
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