From the "MA History Project" research of Robert Keyes, Pelham Town Historian, Pelham, MA.
Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), pp. 98-99.
Margaret Helper, et. al., "Pelham in Shays' Rebellion," in Shays' Rebellion: Selected Essays (Institute for Massachusetts Studies, Westfield State College, 1987), p.82.
Richards, Shays' Rebellion, p. 8.
Robert Keyes, "Who Were the Pelham Shaysites?" Historical Journal of Massachusetts (Vol XXVIII, Winter 2000), p 38. Additionally, Keyes points out that the median age of the Pelham Shaysites was 33.75; 67% were between age 20 and 39; 73% were Scotch-Irish; 76% were married; 74% had children; 46% had served in the American Revolution; 72% lived near or just east/southeast of the Town Hall, the land seized by the state in the 1930s to create the Quabbin Reservoir to meet the drinking water needs of eastern Massachusetts.
Hampshire Gazette, 25 April and 9 May, 1787. (Massachusetts Archives: 189, 30 April, 1787, pp 262-4).
Marion Starkey, A Little Rebellion (New York: Knopf, 1955), pp. 216-222.
Marion Starkey, A Little Rebellion (New York: Knopf, 1955), pp. 222.
Quoted in Gregory H. Nobles, "Leniency and Legitimacy in Shays's Rebellion: The Case of Henry McCulloch" (Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. March, 1985), p. 24.
Pelham Town Records, Memorial Library, Deerfield, MA.
Nobles, "Leniency and Legitimacy," p. 24.
Quoted in Keyes research on Salome Hamilton writing in 1894, Pelham Historical Society.
Gross, Robert, ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion, volume 65. Boston, MA: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1993.
Richards, Leonard. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Starkey, Marion. A Little Rebellion. New York: Knopf, 1955.
Satzmary, David. Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.
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