History of Northampton, Massachusetts, from its settlement in 1654;

^'Tfr.] SHAYS REBELLION. 507
Day makes no Move- Day relying upon tlie effect of his sum-
"^^"*- mons to Gen. Shepherd, remained inactive
at West Springfield, waiting for the government
troops to march over to his encampment, deliver
up their arms and render themselves prisoners. The sound
of Shepherd's cannon failed to arouse him, and he made no
movement. On Friday, the 36"', Shays formed a junctionwith
Col. Eli Parsons at Chicopee, and on Saturday;^
night retreated to Amherst. Gen. Lincoln was too near at"
hand and he had no stomach for another fight. Two hundred
of his men had already deserted and others were only
too anxious to follow their example.
Incidents at South On Saturday, the 27"', a large party of the
Hadiey. iusurgeuts, Said to be about five hundred in
number, passed through South Had ley.
They had been fed at Butts' tavern, where they found sympathizers.
When opposite Smith's tavern, about a quar-
ter of a mile south of the meeting-house, they were fired
upon by a number of government soldiers concealed in an
outhouse. Adj. Amos Call, son of Samuel Call of Montague,
was killed, and Joseph Bellows of Palmer, who was an
acting captain, severely wounded. These two men who
were dressed in some kind of uniform, acted as oflBcers,
and the soldiers thought one of them was Shays. In a
short time the latter came up with the rest of his forces,
and said that if another gun was fired from the house he
would burn it to the ground. Mne men were captured by
the insurgents, and carried to Amherst, where they were
released. The men who fired from Smith's horse shed were
Cotton Graves and Martin Cooley of Sunderland, and
Ebenezer Barnard of Mill River, Deerfield. One gun was
fired from Smith's chamber window, as was said, by Josiah
Smith. There was more random firing by both parties,
but no one else was injured. This firing at Smith's alarmed
the people in the neighborhood. They were afraid of vio-
lence from Shays' party, and several families left their
houses. Shays' men broke into these houses and helped
themselves. They took from the house of Major Goodman
two barrels of rum, his account-books, various articles
of furniture, stripped the beds, and broke the windows.