Footnotes and Further Reading

Elihu Ashley

1750-1817
Footnote # 1

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), Introduction.

Footnote # 2

Ashley was typical in studying under an established physician. The only medical schools in the colonies were established in 1765 at the College of Philadelphia (later the University of Pennsylvania) and in 1767 at King's College (later Columbia) in New York City. The third oldest medical school is Harvard Medical School, established in 1782.Miller and Riggs, eds., Romance, Remedies and Revolution, 16.

Footnote # 3

Jonathan Edwards, quoted in George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, (Deerfield: 1895-96), vol. II, 48 (genealogy section).

Footnote # 4

Ibid., 683.

Footnote # 5

The journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley, Ashley Family Papers, Memorial Library, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield.

Footnote # 6

Nathaniel Dwight to Elihu Ashley, June 26, 1775, Ibid. This letter also appears on the American Centuries website: http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=5924

Footnote # 7

Elihu Ashley to Nathaniel Dwight, June 30, 1775, Ibid. This letter also appears on the American Centuries website: http://www.memorialhall.mass.edu/collection/itempage.jsp?itemid=5923

Footnote # 8

Miller and Riggs, Romance, Remedies, and Revolution, 316.

Footnote # 9

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Vol. II, 739.

Footnote # 10

Ibid., Vol. II, 741.

Footnote # 11

Ibid., Vol. II, 741-5.

Footnote # 12

Ibid., Vol. II, 49 (genealogy section).


Further Reading

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

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

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.