A Few Notes on the Shays Rebellion |
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allegiance appellee arms as aforesaid Berkshire Braintree Caleb Strong Commonwealth aforesaid Commonwealth of Massachusetts County Gentleman County of Essex County of Hampshire County of Worcester Daniel Shays David Stone David Young day of June defended deponent eighty seven Essex ss falsely and traiterously force & arms force and arms Government Troops Governor Guilty Hamiltons Hampshire Henry Gale holden husbandman indemnity indictment Insurgents Insurrections Ipswich James Bowdoin James Maloon Job Shattuck John Barton John Pratt Josiah Kingsbury Jurors Lamb of Oxford last Tuesday Lawful age liege Subjects Lord seventeen hundred Luke Day Luther Wicker Middlesex Mower Oath present offences Oliver Parker Oliver Witt Pacis pardon peace Plaintiff Pratt of Ward Proclamation rebellion records Resolve Reuben Lamb Sent by Government Sept September Sheriff Spencer Suffolk Court Files Supreme Judicial Court taken thereof put Thomas Dawes Thomas Moore Timothy Shaw treason Wicker of Paxton Worcester ss
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Page 10 - Gale be taken to the Goal of the Commonwealth from whence he Came and from thence to the place of Execution and there be hanged by the neck until he be dead.
Page 11 - You shall be taken from the place where you are, and be carried to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by your neck until you be dead. And the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Page 31 - An Act, describing the Disqualifications to which Persons shall be subjected, who have been, or may be guilty of | Treason, or giving Aid or Support to the present Rebellion, and to whom a Pardon may be extended.
Page 11 - Smith, if he hath or knoweth anything to say wherefore the said justices here ought not, upon the premises and verdict aforesaid, to proceed to judgment and execution against him, who nothing farther saith, unless as he before had seen.
Page 10 - Whereupon, all and singular, the premises being seen, and by the said justices here fully understood, it is considered by the court here that the said...
Page 16 - COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. ESSEX ss. At the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, begun and holden at Ipswich, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Tuesday of June (being the sixteenth day of said month) Anno Domini, 1789.
Page 11 - Long, being called, come ; who being elected, tried, and sworn, to speak the truth of and concerning the premises...
Page 18 - Pleas and on file, joined the case after a full hearing was committed to a Jury; sworn according to law, to try the same, who...
Page 9 - Not having the fear of God in their hearts, nor having any regard for the duty of their allegiance, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil, as false traitors and rebels against our said present sovereign lord the king, their supreme, true, natural, lawful, and undoubted sovereign lord, entirely withdrawing that cordial love, true and due obedience...
Page 9 - The jurors for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, upon their oath present, that Samuel Thurlow, of Georgetown, in said county, trader, on the first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, at said Georgetown, he not being then and...