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Connecticut River (United States) (search for this): entry shays-daniel
Worcester (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry shays-daniel
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry shays-daniel
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Portland (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry shays-daniel
Shays, Daniel 1747-1825
Insurgent; born in Hopkinton, Mass., in 1747; was an ensign in Woodbridge's regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill, and became a captain in the Continental army.
His place in history was obtained by his leadership of an insurrection in Massachusetts in 1786-87.
In other portions of the Union, discontents like those which produced the State of Frankland (q. v. ) caused revolutionary movements.
A convention of the people of Maine, sitting in Portland (September, 1786), considered the expediency of erecting themselves into an independent State, but nothing came of it. In Massachusetts a more formidable movement took place.
The General Court had voted customs and excise duties to produce a revenue sufficient to meet the interest on the State.
debt. Besides this burden laid upon them, the people were suffering from private indebtedness.
There were taxes to meet the instalments to be paid on the principal of the State debt, and, also, responses had to be
Sparta, Tenn. (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry shays-daniel
Petersham (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry shays-daniel
Maine (Maine, United States) (search for this): entry shays-daniel
Shays, Daniel 1747-1825
Insurgent; born in Hopkinton, Mass., in 1747; was an ensign in Woodbridge's regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill, and became a captain in the Continental army.
His place in history was obtained by his leadership of an insurrection in Massachusetts in 1786-87.
In other portions of the Union, discontents like those which produced the State of Frankland (q. v. ) caused revolutionary movements.
A convention of the people of Maine, sitting in Portland (September, 1786), considered the expediency of erecting themselves into an independent State, but nothing came of it. In Massachusetts a more formidable movement took place.
The General Court had voted customs and excise duties to produce a revenue sufficient to meet the interest on the State.
debt. Besides this burden laid upon them, the people were suffering from private indebtedness.
There were taxes to meet the instalments to be paid on the principal of the State debt, and, also, responses had to be
Springfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry shays-daniel
Hopkinton (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry shays-daniel
Shays, Daniel 1747-1825
Insurgent; born in Hopkinton, Mass., in 1747; was an ensign in Woodbridge's regiment at the battle of Bunker Hill, and became a captain in the Continental army.
His place in history was obtained by his leadership of an insurrection in Massachusetts in 1786-87.
In other portions of the Union, discontents like those which produced the State of Frankland (q. v. ) caused revolutionary movements.
A convention of the people of Maine, sitting in Portland (September, 1786), considered the expediency of erecting themselves into an independent State, but nothing came of it. In Massachusetts a more formidable movement took place.
The General Court had voted customs and excise duties to produce a revenue sufficient to meet the interest on the State.
debt. Besides this burden laid upon them, the people were suffering from private indebtedness.
There were taxes to meet the instalments to be paid on the principal of the State debt, and, also, responses had to be