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Wealth of reporting on the Shays' Rebellion...
Wealth of reporting on the Shays' Rebellion...
Item # 703569
February 02, 1787
THE MASSACHUSETTS GAZETTE, Boston, Feb. 2, 1787 A wealth of reporting on the Shays' Rebellion is found on pages 2 and 3 in several reports.
A few bits include: "Luke Day reached Northampton about twelve last night, and Shays has left his post at Chicopee...They are breaking to pieces...t present, we can march wherever we please...They have killed one of Shays's adjutants through mistake...the state's army, under General Lincoln, began their march from West-Springfield for Amherst where the insurgents were then posted...Shays thought fit to retire to Pelham..." plus a letter to Shays by B. Lincoln, followed by a response to General Lincoln to him, signed in type: Daniel Shays. Much more as seen in the photos.
Four pages, very discrete archival mend at the blank spine, a foxing streak at a front page fold, very nice condition.
Note: Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in western Massachusetts from August 1786 to February 1787. It was led by Daniel Shays, a former captain in the Continental Army, and involved thousands of rural farmers protesting economic injustices and aggressive tax and debt collection practices.
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