Footnotes and Further Reading

Justin Hitchcock

1752-1822
Footnote # 1

The genealogical information and family history contained in this narrative appears in George Sheldon's two-volume A History of Deerfield (Deerfield, MA: Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, 1895; reprinted 1972). All manuscript sources cited and depicted in this narrative are from the manuscript and museum collections of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, hereafter referred to as PVMA; Justin Hitchcock, "Remarks and Observations," Box 1 Folder 6, Hitchcock Family Papers, PVMA.

Footnote # 2

Indenture between Justin Hitchcock and Moses Church, Box 1 Folder 6 Hitchcock Family Papers, PVMA.

Footnote # 3

The roster recording Hitchcock's service is in the Hitchcock Family Papers at the Memorial Libraries, PVMA. It is in the American Centuries (www.americancenturies.mass.edu) digital collection of PVMA's library and museum collections, as well as in the Artifacts and Documents section of this website.

Footnote # 4

Justin Hitchcock, "Remarks and Observations" Hitchcock Family Papers, PVMA, 35. Extensive excerpts from Hitchcock's manuscript appear on the American Centuries (www.americancenturies.mass.edu) digital collection of PVMA's library and museum collections, as well as in the Artifacts and Documents section of this website.

Footnote # 5

Susan McGowan and Amelia F. Miller, Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1761 (Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA, 1996), 57; Justin Hitchcock to David and Silence Hoyt, 3 April 1778, Hoyt Family Papers, PVMA. George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, (Deerfield: 1895-96), vol. II, 697.

Footnote # 6

Hitchcock, "Remarks and Observations", 54

Footnote # 7

Ibid; Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 209.

Footnote # 8

Hitchcock, "Remarks and Observations", 19.

Footnote # 9

Hitchcock, Remarks and Observations. 19, 38.

Footnote # 10

Ibid., 7.

Footnote # 11

Ibid., 70.

Footnote # 12

Ibid., 71-73

Footnote # 13

Ibid., 74-75.

Footnote # 14

Ibid., 75.

Footnote # 15

Ibid., 77.


Further Reading

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

Holton, Woody. "From the Labours of Others": The War Bonds Controversy and the Origins of the Constitution in New England. The William and Mary Quarterly , Vol. 61, No. 2 (Apr., 2004): 271-316.

Kaminski, John P., Saladino, Gaspare J., Leffler, Richard, Schoenleber, Charles H. and Margaret A. Hogan eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Ratification of the States: Massachusetts vol. 4, pg. 904.

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, Knopf, 1955.

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