Footnotes and Further Reading

Job Shattuck

Footnote # 1

For a discussion of 18th century assumptions concerning the nature of mass movements, see Gordon S. Wood, "Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Century," William and Mary Quarterly 3d ser., 39 (1982): 401-406.

Footnote # 2

Leonard Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002), 19-20; Marion L. Starkey, A Little Rebellion, (NY: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1955), 51-2; Samuel Abbott Green, An historical sketch of Groton, Massachusetts, 1655-1890 (s.n: 1894), 110.

Footnote # 3

Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 20; Starkey, 42.

Footnote # 4

George Richards Minot, The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty-Six and the Rebellion Consequent Thereon (Worcester, 788), 42.

Footnote # 5

Starkey, A Little Rebellion, 55.

Footnote # 6

Proclamation by Governor James Bowdoin, September 2, 1786, printed in the Hampshire Gazette September 13, 1786.

Footnote # 7

David P. Szatmary, Shays' Rebellion: The Making of an Agrarian Insurrection, (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980), 83; Minot, The History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts, 65-6.

Footnote # 8

Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 20-21; Minot, History of the Insurrections, 78-79 ; Starkey, A Little Rebellion, 100-101.

Footnote # 9

Minot, History of the Insurrection, 79.

Footnote # 10

"Pegasus of Apollo," 1787, Worcester Magazine, Memorial Libraries, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association.

Footnote # 11

Starkey, Little Rebellion, 101.

Footnote # 12

Order of Confinement for Job Shattuck, Oliver Parker and Benjamin Page, Massachusetts State Archives, 189: 49

Footnote # 13

Starkey, 101.

Footnote # 14

Ibid., 183; Richards, Shays's Rebellion, 35.

Footnote # 15

Verdict for Job Shattuck and Oliver Parker, Massachusetts State Archives, 189: 389-91

Footnote # 16

Ibid.

Footnote # 17

Reprieve for Job Shattuck, Massachusetts State Archives, 190:10

Footnote # 18

Samuel Adams, quoted in William Pencak, "Samuel Adams and Shays' Rebellion," The New England Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 1 (March, 1989): 64.

Footnote # 19

Starkey, Little Rebellion, 233.

Footnote # 20

Ibid. 237.

Footnote # 21

Green, An Historical sketch of Groton, Massachusetts, 1655-1890 (s.n: 1894), 13.


Further Reading

Green, Samuel Abbott. An historical sketch of Groton, Massachusetts, 1655-1890. s.n: 1894.

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.

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

Taylor, Robert F. Western Massachusetts in the Revolution. Providence: Brown University Press, 1954.