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- GLC#
- GLC02437.03427-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 28, 1787
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
- Title
- to James Bowdoin
- Place Written
- Springfield, Massachusetts
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 30.9 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- Creating a New Government
Marked "copy." Written from "Head Quarters Springfield." Reports on Shay and his supporters' situation. Relates that he and a number of other regiments arrived in Springfield the day before. Writes, "On my arrival I found, that Shays had taken post at a little village, six miles north of this, with the whole force under his [inserted: immediate] command, and that Day had taken post at West Springfield, & that he had fixed a guard at the ferry-house on the west side of the river. By this disposition, all communication, with the north & west in the usual paths were cut off." For a variety of reasons, they decided to take up arms against the insurgents. They arrived and intended to encircle and frighten the insurgents; the insurgents made a small show of force but scattered into the woods in "utmost confusion & disorder." Has received news of the locations of some of the insurgents. Explains what he and the other Generals plan to do next.
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