Raynors 2012-09
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A complete and authentic issue of The Massachusetts Gazette, Boston, September 8, 1786, 4pp., disbound, paper a bit limp, else VG. In four separate articles from the interior, there are reports of the Shay Rebellion. From the back page, “Commonwealth of Massachusetts, By His Excellency James Bodoin, Governor .. A Proclamation,” in which the Governor addresses the rebellion. In small part, “...a large concourse of people ...many of whom were armed with guns, swords, and other deadly weapons, and with drums beating and fifes playing, in contempt and open defiance of the authority of this Government, did, by their threats of violence and keeping possession of the Court-House until twelve o'clock on the night of the same day, prevent the sitting of the Court, and the orderly administration of justice in that county: ...” Then from the interior, three additional reports, in small part “A number of malcontents amounting to one hundred and twenty armed and about two hundred unarmed, had riotously stopped the passage to the Court House .... I have this day sent you a letter by stage. I have only time to inform you that Judge Ward has done himself great honor. He had four bayonets kept at his breast for some moments, but discovered not the least fear, nor gave back one inch ...” Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders. Protesters, including many war veterans, shut down county courts in the later months of 1786 to stop the judicial hearings for tax and debt collection.
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