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Shays

 (shāz), Daniel 1747?-1825.
American Revolutionary soldier and insurrectionist who led an uprising known as Shays's Rebellion (1786-1787). Massachusetts farmers opposed to the state's debt and tax policies disrupted court proceedings and attempted to capture a government arsenal, but they were defeated by the state militia.
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Shays

(ʃeɪz)
n
(Biography) Daniel. ?1747–1825, American soldier and revolutionary leader of a rebellion of Massachusetts farmers against the US government (1786–87)
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Shays

(ʃeɪz)

n.
Daniel, 1747–1825, American Revolutionary War soldier: leader of a popular insurrection (Shays'′ Rebel′lion) in Massachusetts 1786–87.
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This affair was called Shays's war, because a Captain Shays was the chief leader of the insurgents."
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If Shays had not been a DESPERATE DEBTOR, it is much to be doubted whether Massachusetts would have been plunged into a civil war.
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"Shay, lil' girl, we mightish well make bes' of it.
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If every man on the line as has a guinea give him, earns it half as well, you won't catch t'other shay this side Mich'lmas, old short-and-fat.' And with another prolonged grin, the old man closed the gate, re-entered his house, and bolted the door after him.
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The hair, and motion of the shay, will do you good, mim, and you must not give way, you must not raly.
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So he tied up his feet, and went on limping about and coughing, until at last he fell to pieces, all at once and in a heap, like the One-Horse Shay. They carried him to a dry place and laid him on the floor, and that night two of the men helped him home.
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Fredrick Edward Shays III "BUDDY", 40Worcester - Passed away January 4, 2015.
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CHRIS SHAYS is the last Republican member of the House from New England.
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History knows a great deal about Daniel Shays, the former Army captain who lends his name to a rebellion in Western and Central Massachusetts.
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