Daniel Shays

Daniel Shays was an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer famous for being one of the leaders of Shays Rebellion, a populist uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787.

Daniel Shays was born in 1747 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the son of two Irish immigrants, Patrick and Margaret Shays. Daniel was the second of six siblings. He spent his early years as a landless farm laborer. In 1772, he married Abigail Gilbert, with whom he settled in Brookfield, Massachusetts.

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