Footnotes and Further Reading

Hugh Maxwell

1733-1799
Footnote # 1

The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Profiles (Online database: www.NewEnglandAncestors.org, 2004.)

Footnote # 2

For a discussion and analysis of military service among young Massachusetts men during the French and Indian War, see Fred Anderson, A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Year's War (Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1984.

Footnote # 3

The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Profiles.

Footnote # 4

Ibid.

Footnote # 5

Hugh Maxwell to William Stickney, n.d. [1783], quoted in The Christian Patriot: Some Recollections of the Late Hugh Maxwell of Massachusetts, Collected and Preserved by a Daughter (NY: S.W. Benedict & Co., 1833), 107.

Footnote # 6

Ibid.

Footnote # 7

Charles Royster, A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character (Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1979.) 351-53. For a full discussion of the demobilization crisis and Congress' strategy, see James E. Ferguson, The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961).

Footnote # 8

Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War: A Compilation from the Archives 27 Vols. (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1896-1908, 370).

Footnote # 9

The Christian Patriot, 136. It would be almost another twenty years before the United States Congress voted to grant pensions to poor veterans of the American Revolution, in March 1818.

Footnote # 10

The Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati Profiles.


Further Reading

Sylvester, Nathaniel Bartlett. History of the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Philadelphia: L.H. Everts, 1879.

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

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. Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, 1979.

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