Footnotes and Further Reading

John Williams

1751-1816
Footnote # 1

George Sheldon, A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts (Deerfield, MA: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1895), Vol. II, genealogy section, 380-81.

Footnote # 2

Ibid., 383; Susan McGowan & Amelia F. Miller, Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1761, (Deerfield, MA: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1996) , 38-42.

Footnote # 3

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Vol. II, 739-40.

Footnote # 4

Ibid., 740-41.

Footnote # 5

Ibid., 741.

Footnote # 6

Ibid., 746.

Footnote # 7

Ibid., 743-45.

Footnote # 8

Ibid., 747.

Footnote # 9

Day Book, 1783-1784, Williams Family Papers, Memorial Libraries, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association; Account Book, Williams & Upham, 1782-1785, Memorial Libraries, PVMA; Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 747-48.

Footnote # 10

Ibid., 747-48; 853.

Footnote # 11

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Vol. II, 853-55, genealogy section 382.


Further Reading

Miller, Amelia and Riggs, A.R, eds. Romance, Remedies, and Revolution: the Journal of Dr. Elihu Ashley of Deerfield, Massachusetts, 1773-1775. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press; Deerfield [Mass.]: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 2007.

Richards, Leonard. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Sheldon, George. A History of Deerfield, Massachusetts. Deerfield, MA: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1895.

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

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