Footnotes and Further Reading

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Footnote # 1

Letter to the Editor, April 1787, Worcester Magazine.

Footnote # 2

Journal of Park Holland, Petersham Historical Society; history of Colrain; Leonard Richards, Shays's' Rebellion (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 20002), 109.

Footnote # 3

Anonymous letter, 15 April 1787, printed 5 June 1787, Independent Chronicle

Footnote # 4

Petition of the Town of Pelham to the Governor and Council, Records, 8 May 1787, 189: 316-17, Massachusetts State Archives; Ebenezer Matoon to James Bowdoin, 8 May 1787, Records, 189: 302-4, MA.

Footnote # 5

Resolves Approving the Conduct of General Shepard, 5 February 1787, Records, 189: 112, MA

Footnote # 6

William Shepard to Henry Knox, [1790], Shepard Papers, Historic Deerfield.

Footnote # 7

Journal of Park Holland, Petersham Historical Society.

Footnote # 8

The delegate was John Taylor from the town of Douglass, who made his final remark on February 6 1787. Elliot, Jonathan, ed. The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution as Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. . . . 5 vols. 2d ed. 1888. Reprint. New York: Burt Franklin, n.d.