The Bloody Assize of 1814-- Part 2: Those Executed Had Heads Cut Off and Displayed on Poles

The judges presiding over these trials were  Chief Justice Thomas Scott,  Justice William Plummer Powell and Justice William Campbell.  The  prosecutor was the attorney general for the province John Beverly Robinson.

Fifteen men were found guilty and sentenced to death.  Eight were hanged at  the Burlington Heights British military camp  on July 20, 1814, and their heads chopped off and displayed on poles.  The bodies were buried in  an unmarked grave near the gallows.

Seven others were banished.  Of those, three died of typhus while still in captivity and one escaped and was not recaptured.

The eight executed were  Aaron Stevens, Adam Crysler, Dayton Lindsey, Noah Payne Hopkins, George Peacock, Jr.,  Isaiah Brink, Benjamin Simmons and John Dunham.    Their possessions were confiscated as well.

--Brock-Perry