Job Shattuck

Released
Date of birth:11. 09. 1736
Date of death:13. 01. 1819
Age:82† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1700s
State:Massachusetts
Time Imprisoned:
4 Months 7 Days
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Job Shattuck

Biography

Job Shattuck was a Revolutionary War veteran and one of the principal leaders of Shays’ Rebellion in eastern Massachusetts. On November 30, 1786 a mounted posse ran him down and captured him, wounding him with a sword slash in the process, and he was thrown into a Boston jail. Tried and sentenced to death for treason in 1787, he was pardoned that September.

Case

Charges: Treason — for leading Shays’ Rebellion farmers in the Massachusetts uprising.
Arrested: Nov 30, 1786
Sentenced: May 9, 1787
Incarcerated: Nov 30, 1786
Released: Apr 6, 1787
Sentence: Death; pardoned.
Convicted: Yes

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