Editing Daniel Shays (section)

==Early life==

[[File:Daniel and Abigail Shays' Pelham, MA farmhouse.jpg|thumb|Daniel and Abigail Shays' Pelham, MA farmhouse, {{circa|lk=no|1898}}]]
Daniel Ogden Shays<ref>{{cite magazine |editor-last=Nichols |editor-first=Frank M. |date=September 1912 |title=Proposed Monuments: The Livingston County Historical Society |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lhZbAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA8-PA30 |magazine=The Reporter |location=Chicago, IL |publisher=Nichols & Co. |page=30 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> was born in [[Hopkinton, Massachusetts]], sometime between April and August 1747 to [[Irish people|Irish]] immigrants Patrick Shays and Margaret Dempsey.<ref>{{cite book |last=Butz |first=Stephen D. |date=2017 |title=Shays' Settlement in Vermont: A Story of Revolt and Archaeology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QTEvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 |location=Charleston, SC |publisher=The History Press |page=13 |isbn=978-1-6258-5950-1 |via=[[Google Books]] |ref={{sfnRef|Butz}}}}</ref><ref name="Brown-2010-p220">{{cite book|author=Brown, Lorri|chapter=Shays, Daniel (1747–1825)|editor=Danver Steven L.|title=Revolts, protests, demonstrations, and rebellions in American history: an encyclopedia|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2010|isbn=978-1-59884-221-0|page=220|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1C4W2IVHcMC&pg=PA220}}</ref> Daniel was the second of seven siblings; his siblings were Margaret, James, Roger, Phebe, Mary, and Polly.<ref>Elmer S. Small (November 1934). ''The Family of Daniel Shays, from Descendants of Daniel Shays'' {{oclc|17982816}}</ref> He spent his early years as a landless farm laborer.<ref name="Brown-2010-p220"/> In 1772, he married Abigail Gilbert, and they settled in [[Shutesbury, Massachusetts]], where he owned a sixty-eight acre farm and they had six children.{{sfn|Butz|page=14}}<ref>"Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639–1915," database, FamilySearch [https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FC3N-TJR : 4 December 2014), Daniel Shayes in entry for Daniel Shayes, 31 Jan 1773; citing, Shutesbury, Franklin, Massachusetts, 2:179B4K1; FHL microfilm 886,455]{{subscription required }}</ref>