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Culture:American
Title:walking stick
Date Made:ca. 1785
Type:Personal Equipment
Materials:wood: hickory
Place Made:United States
Measurements:overall: 35 5/8 x 1 in.; 90.4875 x 2.54 cm
Accession Number:  HD 2004.20.1
Credit Line:Gift of Mark T. Fowler in Memory of William Smith Fowler
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Walking stick or cane said to have been owned by David Smith, Jr. (1757-1814) of West Springfield, Massachusetts, the son of David Smith (1737-1804) and Margaret Day Smith (1730-1803), during Shay's Rebellion, which was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts (mainly Springfield) from 1786 to 1787 named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary war.

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