Settled accounts for militia supplies during Shays' Rebellion, 1787-1788.

ArchivalResource

Settled accounts for militia supplies during Shays' Rebellion, 1787-1788.

Bulk of series consists of individual account statements, signed by payee, with accompanying certificates.

2.27 cubic ft. (7 doc. boxes)

Related Entities

There are 2 Entities related to this resource.

Massachusetts. Office of the Secretary of State

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z934cb (corporateBody)

St 1832, c 166 authorized county commissioners in Massachusetts to grant liquor licenses to innholders and retailers. St 1852, c 322 (revised by St 1855, c 215) established state-wide prohibition, forbidding the sale of all liquor except for medicinal, chemical, or mechanical purposes. This was changed by St 1868, c 141, passed in April of that year, which authorized county commissioners (in Suffolk County specially-elected license commissioners) to issue licenses for the sale of liquor in their...

Massachusetts. Quartermaster General's Dept.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g800g6 (corporateBody)

HISTORICAL NOTE: The post-Revolutionary Massachusetts legislature endeavored to collect taxes levied to pay war debt and other state expenses, particularly burdening farmers in the western part of the state. Angered by foreclosures and imprisonment imposed for tax delinquency and not receiving satisfaction for grievance petitions filed with the legislature, the protesting farmers rioted and closed courthouses under the leadership of Revolutionary veteran Daniel Shays. The state mili...