... for the benefit of the officers who tried them. Six of them were sentenced for six or ten years, or for life, and five of them—Lafreniere, his young son-in-law Noyan, Caresse, Marquis, and Joseph Milhet —were sentenced to be hanged, but, for want of such an executioner, were shot on Oct. 25, 1769. Villere, one of the twelve, did not survive the day of his arrest, and his name was declared inf...