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SHAYS, DANIEL

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SHAYS, DANIEL
(1747 - 1825) American insurgent. Served as ensign at Bunker Hill and promoted captain in the Continental Army. Shays is better remembered for his leadership of 1,000 men in the movement in western Massachusetts for the redress of alleged grievances seeking to prevent the session of the Supreme Court. Shays also commanded rebels at Pelham and in the engagement with the militia at Petersham. After the rebellion was put down, however, he was pardoned. Rare D.S. ""Daniel Shays"", 1p. 9"" x 3 1/2"", Conesus [?], July 2, 1825 {three months before his death], a promissory note promising to repay the sum of $3.33 within sixty days. Partial fold separation, light soiling, else very good.