From an anonymous letter posted on the liberty pole, quoted in George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, (Deerfield: 1895-96), vol. II, 678. The author of the letter was Dr. Elihu Ashley, who recorded the liberty pole incident in his diary, which has been recently annotated and published: Amelia Miller and A.R. Riggs, 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), 99-100.
Ibid., 112. In a later entry, Ashley refers to concerns that "Harvey was coming to mobb the Tories in Deerfd." Ibid., 114.
George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, vol. II, 106-107.
The other landowner was Consider Dickinson. Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1761 Susan McGowan & Amelia F. Miller, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA, 1996.
Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 697.
L.H. Everts & Co., History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts: with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers (Philadelphia, L.H. Everts, 1879), 616.
Sheldon. History of Deerfield, Vol II, 740.
bid., Vol. II, 741.
Ibid., Vol. II, 745.
Marion Starkey, A Little Rebellion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955) 78.
Hampshire Gazette, April 25, 1787.
Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Vol. II, 106.
Ibid.
Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.
McGowan, Susan & Miller, Amelia F. Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1761. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA, 1996.
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.
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