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Shays was later granted a pension by the federal government for the five years he served in the [[Continental Army]] without pay. Shays lived the last few years of his life in poverty, a heavy drinker. He supported himself on his pension and by working a small parcel of land.<ref name="Gross-1993-p2">{{cite book|author=Gross, Robert A.|chapter=The Uninvited Guest: Daniel Shays and the Constitution|editor=Gross, Robert A.|title=In Debt to Shays: The Bicentennial of an Agrarian Rebellion|publisher=University Press of Virginia|year=1993|isbn=978-0-8139-1354-4|page=2|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HpSIYclyYogC&pg=PA2}}</ref> Shays died at age 78 in [[Sparta, New York]] and was later buried at the Union Cemetery in [[Scottsburg, New York|Scottsburg]].<ref name="Gross-1993-p2" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://nyhistoric.com/2011/10/captain-daniel-shays/ |title=Captain Daniel Shays |website=nyhistoric.com/ |publisher=New York Historic |access-date=August 13, 2016 |archive-date=September 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914062550/http://nyhistoric.com/2011/10/captain-daniel-shays/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>