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- proper noun historical, US A follower of Daniel Shays during his 18th-century armed rebellion in
New England .
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Examples
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He spoke of the “black cloud” that had spread over the western part of the state during the previous winter, bringing anarchy and then tyranny: Shaysite insurgents “would rob you of your property, threaten to burn your houses; oblige you to be on your guard night and day.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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DHRC VI: 1407 and, on Whitney, who was “an active Shaysite sympathizer,” n.2 at 1407, and account by Dalton, February 3, DHRC VII: 1569.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Dr. John Taylor, the debt-ridden delegate from the Shaysite town of Douglass in Worcester County, noted that under the Articles of Confederation delegates to Congress were elected annually, could serve for only a limited term no delegate could serve “for more than three years in any term of six years”, and could be recalled by their state in midterm.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Dr. John Taylor, the debt-ridden delegate from the Shaysite town of Douglass in Worcester County, noted that under the Articles of Confederation delegates to Congress were elected annually, could serve for only a limited term no delegate could serve “for more than three years in any term of six years”, and could be recalled by their state in midterm.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Dr. John Taylor, the debt-ridden delegate from the Shaysite town of Douglass in Worcester County, noted that under the Articles of Confederation delegates to Congress were elected annually, could serve for only a limited term no delegate could serve “for more than three years in any term of six years”, and could be recalled by their state in midterm.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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He spoke of the “black cloud” that had spread over the western part of the state during the previous winter, bringing anarchy and then tyranny: Shaysite insurgents “would rob you of your property, threaten to burn your houses; oblige you to be on your guard night and day.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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DHRC VI: 1407 and, on Whitney, who was “an active Shaysite sympathizer,” n.2 at 1407, and account by Dalton, February 3, DHRC VII: 1569.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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He spoke of the “black cloud” that had spread over the western part of the state during the previous winter, bringing anarchy and then tyranny: Shaysite insurgents “would rob you of your property, threaten to burn your houses; oblige you to be on your guard night and day.”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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DHRC VI: 1407 and, on Whitney, who was “an active Shaysite sympathizer,” n.2 at 1407, and account by Dalton, February 3, DHRC VII: 1569.
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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A militia that had been raised as a private army defeated an attack on the federal Springfield Armory by the main Shaysite force on February 3, 1787.
Salem-News.com 2009
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