Footnotes and Further Reading

Seth Catlin

1734-1798
Footnote # 1

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.

Footnote # 2

Ibid., 112. In a later entry, Ashley refers to concerns that "Harvey was coming to mobb the Tories in Deerfd." Ibid., 114.

Footnote # 3

George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, vol. II, 106-107.

Footnote # 4

The other landowner was Consider Dickinson. Family & Landscape: Deerfield Homelots from 1761 Susan McGowan & Amelia F. Miller, Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA, 1996.

Footnote # 5

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, 697.

Footnote # 6

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.

Footnote # 7

Sheldon. History of Deerfield, Vol II, 740.

Footnote # 8

bid., Vol. II, 741.

Footnote # 9

Ibid., Vol. II, 745.

Footnote # 10

Marion Starkey, A Little Rebellion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955) 78.

Footnote # 11

Hampshire Gazette, April 25, 1787.

Footnote # 12

Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Vol. II, 106.

Footnote # 13

Ibid.


Further Reading

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.

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. Little Rebellion. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.

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