Biography daniel shays
Biography daniel shays
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Daniel Shays
American soldier and rebel (1747–1825)
Daniel Shays (August 1747 – September 29, 1825) was an American soldier, revolutionary and farmer famous for allegedly leading Shays' Rebellion, a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies that took place in Massachusetts between 1786 and 1787.
The actual role played by Shays in the rebellion is disputed by scholars.[1]
Early life
Daniel Ogden Shays[2] was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, sometime between April and August 1747 to Irish immigrants Patrick Shays and Margaret Dempsey.[3][4] Daniel was the second of seven siblings; his siblings were Margaret, James, Roger, Phebe, Mary, and Polly.[5] He spent his early years as a landless farm laborer.[4] In 1772, he married Abigail Gilbert, and they settled in Shutesbury, Massachusetts, where he owned a sixty-eight acre farm and they had six children.[7]