Daniel Shays, American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer, and other leaders of Shays' Rebellion were arrested for an uprising against controversial debt collection and tax policies in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. Coming back from war and seeing that many farmers, such as he was, were in difficult financial state, prayed on by big corporations. Shays and few other leaders, self-proclaimed “Regulators”, were arrested and sentenced to death by hanging. All of them were pardoned, except John Bly and Charles Rose.