The adherents of Daniel Shays. As to his rebellion, 1786–7, see Geo. R. Minot’s ‘History of the Insurrections in Massachusetts,’ 1778.

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1786.  “Shays: a rebel eclogue” appeared in the Mass. Centinel.—See J. T. Buckingham, ‘Specimens of Newspaper Literature,’ ii. 41–4 (Boston, 1850).

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1787.  

        Hail Congress, Conventions, Mobs, Shayites, and Kings,
With Bankrupts, and Knowye’s, and all pretty things.
Maryland Journal, Dec. 21: from the American Museum.    

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[1787.  The stupid fury of Shays and his banditti employed to introduce a more stable government.—‘Observations on Shays’s Rebellion.’—American Museum, ii. 319.]

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1788.  

        Rouse, ye Shayites, Dayites, and Shattuckites!
Rouse, and kick up a dust before it is too late.
Maryland Journal, Feb. 29.    

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1792.  [He] acts like one of those who were called warm Shaysites, in whom there was much guile.—Mass. Spy, Dec. 13.

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[1813.  You never felt the terrorism of Chaise’s Rebellion in Massachusetts.—John Adams to Tho. Jefferson, June 30, from Quincy.]

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