This narrative uses the most common spelling of Hugh's last name, although during his lifetime it was also spelled McClallen.
Lois McClellan Patrie, A History of Colrain, Massachusetts, with Genealogies of Early Families (Troy, NY: 1974), genealogy section, 92.
Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 100; Nancy Dolberg, "Colrain, Massachusetts: An Eighteenth-Century Hill Town," unpublished thesis, Harvard College, 1977, 39-42.
Patrie, A History of Colrain, 231; Ibid., genealogical section, 92.
Richards, Shays's Rebellion., 72.
Ibid., 72-3.
Charles McClellan, The Early Settlers of Colrain, Massachusetts (Greenfield: W.S. Carson, 1885), 59-60; Richards, Shays' Rebellion, 73.
Richards, 73.
Patrie, A History of Colrain, 93.
Colrain was part of Hampshire County in this period, which encompassed what is today Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.
Ibid., 86.
Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 109.
Ibid., 108.
Ibid., 108-9; Greenfield Gazette, June 13, 1793.
McClellan, History of Colrain, 65-66.
Ibid., 89.
Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 73.
Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Holland, Josiah Gilbert. History of Western Massachusetts, The Counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, 2 Vols. (Springfield: Samuel Bowles and Company, 1855).
Patrie, Lois McClellan, A History of Colrain, Massachusetts, with Genealogies of Early Families. Troy, New York: 1974.
Richards, Leonard. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.
Starkey, Marion L. A Little Rebellion. New York, Knopf, 1955.
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