At last they got on the road to Chingford, and caught up numbers of other vehicles going in the same direction-donkey-Shays, pony-carts, tradesmen's carts, dog-carts, drags, brakes, every conceivable kind of wheel thing, all filled with people, the wretched donkey dragging along four solid rate-payers to the pair of stout horses easily managing a couple of score.
"Liza of Lambeth"
W. Somerset Maugham
In August, 1786, the malcontents rose in rebellion, headed by one Daniel Shays, who had been a captain in the Continental army.
"The War of Independence"
John Fiske
The Shays rebellion and the quarrel about the Mississippi river had by this time alarmed people so that it began to be generally admitted that the federal government must be in some way strengthened.
"The War of Independence"
John Fiske