Footnotes and Further Reading

Thomas Jefferson

1743-1826
Footnote # 1

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, January 30, 1787, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Series 1, General Correspondence, Library of Congress.

Footnote # 2

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

Footnote # 3

Knox to Washington, 23 October, 1786, Papers of George Washington: Confederation Series, Abbott, et al.

Footnote # 4

Governor Bowdoin issued the proclamation on September 2, 1786. It appeared in the Hampshire Gazette on September 13 ,1786.

Footnote # 5

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Series 1, General Correspondence, Library of Congress.

Footnote # 6

Thomas Jefferson to Colonel Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787, Ibid.

Footnote # 7

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, August 30, 1787, Thomas Jefferson Papers, Series 1, General Correspondence, Library of Congress. For Madison's assurance to Jefferson that he would fully inform him, see Joseph J. Ellis, American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997), 121.

Footnote # 8

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, November 13, 1787, Ibid.


Further Reading

Ellis, Joseph. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

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. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1986-2007, vol. 4.

Koch, Adrienne. Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration. New York : Oxford University Press, 1950.

Peterson, Merrill, ed. The Portable Thomas Jefferson. New York : Viking Press, 1975.

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.