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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Leisler, Jacob 1660- (search)
he King's decision in the matter. Leisler's enemies burned with a desire for revenge. The Assembly, also composed of his enemies, refused to recommend a temporary reprieve. At a dinner-party given for the purpose, Sloughter, made drunk with liquor, was persuaded to sign the deathwarrant. The revel was continued until morning for fear Sloughter, sober, might recall the warrant; and before he had recovered his senses Leisler and Milborne were taken from their weeping wives and children (May 16, 1691) and hurried to the scaffold, erected near the lower end of the present City Hall Park. A drizzly rain was falling. A sullen crowd of citizens were spectators of the sad scene. Among them were Robert Livingston and others of Leisler's bitter enemies. The prisoners protested their loyalty and innocence of the charge to the last. Milborne said on the scaffold, Robert Livingston, for this I will implead thee at the bar of God! It was nothing less than a judicial murder. Some years aft
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
Trials. The following is a list of the most notable trials in the United States: Anne Hutchinson; sedition and heresy (the Antinomian controversy); imprisoned and banished......1637 Trials of Quakers in Massachusetts......1656-61 Jacob Leisler, New York, convicted and executed for treason......May 16, 1691 Trials for witchcraft, Massachusetts......1692 Thomas Maule, for slanderous publications and blasphemy, Massachusetts......1696 Nicholas Bayard, treason......1702 John Peter Zenger, for printing and publishing libels on the colonial government, November, 1734, acquitted......1735 William Wemms, James Hartegan, William McCauley, and other British soldiers, in Boston, Mass., for the murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Patrick Carr.......March 5, 1770 Maj.-Gen. Charles Lee, court-martial after the battle of Monmouth; found guilty of, first, disobedience of orders in not attacking the enemy; second, unnecessary and
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
690 Leisler refuses to give up the fort at New York to Richard Ingoldsby, Governor Sloughter's deputy......January, 1691 Arrival of Governor Sloughter......March 19, 1691 Leisler imprisoned......March 20, 1691 Leisler, Milborne, and others indicted for treason and murder. Eight of the prisoners convicted......April, 1691 Petition for Leisler's pardon. Governor Sloughter signs the death-warrant of Leisler and Milborne......May 14, 1691 Leisler and Milborne executed......May 16, 1691 Governor Sloughter dies......July 23, 1691 Richard Ingoldsby acting governor......July 23, 1691 Governor Sloughter succeeded by Benjamin Fletcher......Aug. 29, 1692 Frontenac sends an expedition against the Mohawks......Jan. 15, 1693 Peter Schuyler, of Albany, pursues the French with English and Iroquois; they escape across the upper Hudson......February, 1693 Fort Frontenac rebuilt by the French......1694 Frontenac prepares a great expedition against the Iroquois; but o