Footnotes and Further Reading

Samuel Adams

1722-1803
Footnote # 1

Adams, Samuel, The Rights of the Colonists, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, Nov. 20, 1772 Old South Leaflets no. 173 (Boston: Directors of the Old South Work, 1906) 7: 417-428.

Footnote # 2

Ibid.

Footnote # 3

Samuel Adams, quoted in William Pencak, "Samuel Adams and Shays' Rebellion," The New England Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 1 (March, 1989): 64

Footnote # 4

Samuel Adams to Richard Henry Lee, 3 December 1787, quoted in Gordon S. Wood, The Creation of the American Republic, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press) 1969, 527.


Further Reading

Gross, Robert A., ed. In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1993.

Kaminski, John P., Saladino, Gaspare J., Leffler, Richard, Schoenleber, Charles H. and Margaret A. Hogan eds., The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, Ratification of the States: Massachusetts vol. 4.

Maier, Pauline. "Coming to Terms with Samuel Adams," The American Historical Review, Vol. 81, No. 1 (Feb., 1976): 12-37.

______. The Old Revolutionaries: Political Lives in the Age of Samuel Adams, New York: Knopf, 1980.

Pencak, William, "Samuel Adams and Shays' Rebellion," The New England Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 1 (March, 1989): 63-64.

Richards, Leonard. Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002.

Starkey, Marion L. A Little Rebellion. New York, Knopf, 1955.