Shays,
Daniel 1747?-1825; Am. Revolutionary soldier: leader of an insurrection () in W Mass. (1786-87) in reaction to high land taxes
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(shāz), Daniel 1747?-1825.
American Revolutionary soldier and insurrectionist who with a band of armed men raided a government arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, to protest the state legislature's indifference to the economic plight of farmers (1787). The raid, known as Shays's Rebellion, was quashed by militia.