The Commonwealth’s case against Job Shattuck and Oliver Parker formed part of the series of treason trials that followed the uprising now known as Shays’s Rebellion. Shattuck was accused of leading around two hundred men to close down the Middlesex County Courthouse in Concord in September 1786, and Oliver Parker was charged with leading a company of insurgents in the same event. The case came before the grand jury in October 1786, at which Shattuck and Parker were tried in absentia. They were both arrested at the end of November and pleaded not guilty; the treason charge came before the Supreme Judicial Court at Middlesex County in May 1787. After numerous witnesses testified, Shattuck was found guilty and Parker was found not guilty. Shattuck was sentenced to death but was later pardoned by Gov. John Hancock.