<P> The events and people of the uprising are commemorated in the towns where they lived and those where events took place . Sheffield erected a memorial (pictured above) marking the site of the "last battle", and Pelham memorialized Daniel Shays . US Route 202, which runs through Pelham, is called the Daniel Shays Highway . A statue of General Shepard was erected in his hometown of Westfield . </P> <P> In the town of Petersham, Massachusetts, a memorial was erected in 1927 by the New England Society of Brooklyn, New York . The memorial commemorates General Benjamin Lincoln, who raised 3,000 troops and routed the rebellion on February 4, 1787 . It ends with the line, "Obedience to the law is true liberty ." </P>

Who organized a group of farmhand rebels to march across western massachusetts