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Daniel Shays to the Selectmen of South Hadley to Stand Ready
South Hadley, November 8, 1786.
To the PRINTER at Northampton.
SIR,
AGREEABLY to the request of a number of gentlemen in this county, I here inclose to you the original Letter written by Daniel Shays, of Pelham, to the Selectmen of South-Hadley, with their consent to dispose of it as I should think fit.
To the PRINTER at Northampton.
SIR,
AGREEABLY to the request of a number of gentlemen in this county, I here inclose to you the original Letter written by Daniel Shays, of Pelham, to the Selectmen of South-Hadley, with their consent to dispose of it as I should think fit.
JOHN STICKNSY, Town-Clerk.
This following is a Copy of the letter
Pelham, October 23d, 1786.
Gentlemen,
BY information from the General Court, they are determined to call all those
who appeared to stop the Court to condign punishment. Therefore I request you
to assemble your men together, to see that they are well armed and equipped
with sixty rounds each man, and to be ready to turn out at a minute's warning:
likewise to be properly organized with officers.
I am your most obedient, and shall ever serve,
DANIEL SHAYS."
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