[Rarebooks] FS: Insurrection upon American Soil

[Ezra Tishman]

Ezra at Aardvark Books offers this scarce first of Minot’s authoritative account of Shays Rebellion:


Minot, George Richards. THE HISTORY OF THE INSURRECTIONS, IN MASSACHUSETTS, IN THE YEAR 1786,
AND THE REBELLION CONSEQUENT THEREON. Worcester, Massachusetts: Isaiah Thomas, 1788. First Edition. 8vo.
The rare first edition of the definitive work on Shays' Rebellion, Later three-quarter-bound leather. rubbed at extremities. One
or two head- and tailpieces, dropcaps, and a printer's device at end. Some foxing, but none to obscure.
Considered the best and most complete account of Shay's Rebellion, an armed insurrection in the newly-formed United States
of America which is widely thought to have brought to light weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation, and as central to the
creation of a stronger central government, the forging of the Constitution, etc.  W.F. Hopson designed bookplate of Edward Marsh to front pastedown. 192 pp. (Howes M651; Sabin 49324) Very Good. Leather-bound.

The author was a lawyer and a judge of both municipal and probate courts. "...On the 16th of February, General Shepard
detached a party of horse from Northfield, under the command of Samuel Buffington, for the purpose of apprehending certain
insurgents, who had fled to Vermont. Upon their arrival, within that government, although they procured a warrant from a
magistrate, to apprehend the objects of their search, yet the people assembled in such numbers, and evidenced such a hostile
disposition towards them, that they were obliged to relinquish their pursuit, and return to Massachusetts..." "On the 26th of
the month however, a large body of them under a Capt. Hamlin, entered the county of Berkshire, from the state of New York,
and proceeded to the town of Stockbridge. This they pillaged at pleasure, and made prisoners of a great number of the most
reputable inhabitants. The militia of Sheffield were collected upon the first information of this event, and were joined by those
of Great Barrington about one o'clock on the 27th..." (p. 151) "...In a government as free as the people themselves can make it,
we may expect to find a stated and satisfactory mode of redressing every remediable evil that can happen..." (p. 23). $450



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