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Moses Sash is indicted for taking up arms against the Commonwealth and encouraging others to do the same in Shays’ Rebellion.
1787 (Jan 20)
Moses Sash was indicted for taking up arms against the Commonwealth and encouraging others to do the same, according to a Suffolk County, Massachusetts, courthouse document. A second document showed he was indicted for stealing two guns. Reportedly Sash's indictments indicated he played a major role in the rebellion, as the members of Shays's Council of War and directors of the rebel strategy were excluded from the indemnity that was granted to less serious offenders. Governor John Hancock pardoned all participants. Sash had been born to Sarah Sash and Samson Dunbar in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1755. During the revolutionary war, Sash enlisted as a private in Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge's regiment in August 1777. In May 1781 he reenlisted as a private in the seventh regiment.
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- • Hornsby, Alton. Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.