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DANIEL SHAYS (1747–1825)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 815 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DANIEL
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SHAYS (1747–1825)  ,
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American soldier, the
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leader of
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Shays's Insurrection in W .
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Massachusetts in 1786–1787 (see MASSACHUSETTS:
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History), was
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born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, in 1747 . In the
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War of
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Independence he served as second
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lieutenant in a Massachusetts
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regiment from May to
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December 1775, became
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captain in the 5th Massachusetts regiment in
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January 1777, and resigned his
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commission in
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October 1780 . After the collapse of Shays's Insurrection he escaped to
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Vermont . He was pardoned in
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June 1788, and died at
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Sparta, New
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York, on the 29th of
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September 1825 .

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