Massachusetts Attorney General 1787 Papers about Shays's Rebellion Participants

http://www.masshist.org/collection-guides/view/fa0271     Reel 17

The uniform resource locator URL above is for a finding aid to the Robert Treat Paine papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.  The papers have been microfilmed in 19 reels; reel 17 contains papers and manuscripts related to the Shays Rebellion.  The Society has published three volumes of a planned five volumes of hhis papers.  The year of publication of the last volume is expected to be 2018.  It will be part of a series titled Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society..  Volumes 1-3 have been published, and cover his writings trough 1777.

     The American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts has a collection of papers relating to the rebellion.  None of the material has been put into digital form.  I contacted the library within the past year about the possibililty of getting photographs of the pages of the list of men who had signed the "Oath of Allegiance" to Massachusetts so that they could have their civil rights restored.  The pages are oversize, so it would take some extra work to prepare a reduced photographic image of each page.  There may be about 4,000 names o the list.  The society's online finding aid  http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Manuscripts/shaysrebellion.htm   Folders 24 to 42 are about the "Arrest and Trial of Insurgents" and have 22 names and the town of residence.  Daniel Shays, Luke Day, Frances Stone of Brookfield, Moses Sash of Worthington, William Smith of New Salem, Jacob Parmenter of Bernardston, Eli Parsons of Chicopee (then still part of Springfield) do not have trial folders.

     Others that I have identified as possible participants, but have not confirmed, include Jacob Packard, a "Captain [John?] Goldsbury", Thomas Rich,, a Colonel James Goldsbury [tavernkeeper at Warwick but not active participant], all of Warwick; Henry McCulloch of Pelham,  "Mr. Bullard of Orange".

Thomas Lindsey, new participant 1/21/2017 

      Some of Shays followers escaped capture at Petersham, Massachusetts and escaped over the