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Daniel Shays

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Shays, Daniel 

Born circa 1747 in Hopkinton, Mass, (now in New Hampshire); died Sept. 29, 1825, in Sparta, N.Y. Leader of a rebellion of poor farmers in the USA in 1786 and 1787.

From 1775 to 1780, Shays fought in the American Revolution. In 1777 he received the rank of captain for distinction in battle. After the war, Shays engaged in farming. In 1786 he headed a rebellion in Massachusetts (seeSHAYS’ REBELLION). After it was defeated, Shays was sentenced to death in 1787 but was pardoned in 1788.
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just off Daniel Shays Highway, west of the intersection with Route 122.
FROM THE REGION by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
In January of 1787, Daniel Shays led a group of impoverished farmers, angered by foreclosures and imprisonment for debt, in an armed assault on the federal arsenal in Springfield.
LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG by The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Within this tapestry are woven scenes of druid ceremonies in Thayer's Wood in the middle of Midsummer night, the lingering revolutionary spirit of Captain Daniel Shays, hero of the Revolution and leader of the first rebellion against the post-Revolutionary order, the skullduggery concealed behind the scarlet curtains of Miss Millie Tiverton's fancy house, and more ghosts, spirits, and skeletons than you could find in a corrupt politician's closet.
Stillwater: A Novel. (Critical Mass.) by Hart, Gary / Washington Monthly
 
 
 
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