Job Shattuck

Job Shattuck (February 11, 1736 – January 13, 1819) is a British colonial soldier during the Seven Years' War and a member of the Massachusetts state militia during the American Revolutionary War.

He first serves with the British in the 1755 Battle of Fort Beauséjour.

He is later active at the Siege of Boston in 1776, then in preparing defenses at Mt. Independence and Ft. Ticonderoga later that year.

Following the cessation of the American Revolution, Shattuck returns to Massachusetts where he is the largest landowner in the town of Groton.

He is a key figure in the nation-defining 1786-87 farmers' revolt known as Shays' Rebellion, leading forces in direct action that shuts down a state court in Concord.

He is arrested in late 1786 on charges of treason, but is pardoned in 1787 by Governor John Hancock.

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