Adams Papers

26th.

26th.

General Lincoln, it seems, finds more difficulties in the affair he has undertaken, than were expected. He has sent for a reinforcement of troops: there are about 2000 men assembled to oppose him. They have the start of him, and it is supposed they intend first to attack, Genl. Shepard,1 who is at Springfield, with about 1200 men. Part of the militia are going from this town. I pass’d the evening at Mr. Dana’s, and lodg’d there. Saw Mr. Winthrop.

1. William Shepard, major general of the Hampshire co. militia, repulsed the attack on the Springfield arsenal by Daniel Shays’ forces on 25 Jan., before Lincoln arrived (DAB description begins Allen Johnson and Dumas Malone, eds., Dictionary of American Biography, New York, 1928-1936; 20 vols, plus index and supplements. description ends ).

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    Adams Papers
    Title
    26th.
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    Adams, John Quincy
    Date
    26 January 1787

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    “26th.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/03-02-02-0002-0001-0026. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary of John Quincy Adams, vol. 2, March 1786 – December 1788, ed. Robert Taylor J and Marc Friedlaender. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981, p. 152.]