Footnotes and Further Reading

Hugh McClellan

1743-1816
Footnote # 1

This narrative uses the most common spelling of Hugh's last name, although during his lifetime it was also spelled McClallen.

Footnote # 2

Lois McClellan Patrie, A History of Colrain, Massachusetts, with Genealogies of Early Families (Troy, NY: 1974), genealogy section, 92.

Footnote # 3

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University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 100; Nancy Dolberg, "Colrain, Massachusetts: An Eighteenth-Century Hill Town," unpublished thesis, Harvard College, 1977, 39-42.

Footnote # 4

Patrie, A History of Colrain, 231; Ibid., genealogical section, 92.

Footnote # 5

Richards, Shays's Rebellion., 72.

Footnote # 6

Ibid., 72-3.

Footnote # 7

Charles McClellan, The Early Settlers of Colrain, Massachusetts (Greenfield: W.S. Carson, 1885), 59-60; Richards, Shays' Rebellion, 73.

Footnote # 8

Richards, 73.

Footnote # 9

Patrie, A History of Colrain, 93.

Footnote # 10

Colrain was part of Hampshire County in this period, which encompassed what is today Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin Counties.

Footnote # 11

Ibid., 86.

Footnote # 12

Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 109.

Footnote # 13

Ibid., 108.

Footnote # 14

Ibid., 108-9; Greenfield Gazette, June 13, 1793.

Footnote # 15

McClellan, History of Colrain, 65-66.

Footnote # 16

Ibid., 89.

Footnote # 17

Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 73.


Further Reading

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.