Private Helms was an unknown soldier who was executed during the War of 1812 for desertion at the Greenbush Cantonment (camp), which is now the site of the Hampton manor neighborhood and Red Mill Elementary School.
Now, Greenbush historian Bobbie Reno is out to get those charges dropped.
Samuel Helms of Captain Joseph Delafield's Company in the 1st New York Militia Regiment apparently might have had an illegal court martial.
Reno attempted to have the state militia rule in his innocence but they couldn't. However, she got the governor of the state, Kathy Hochul, to review her documentation and rule on it.
The issue for Private Helms is whether he deserted his post in Ulster County or went AWOL (absent without leave) to see his wife and three young children.
Reno's research makes it seem that the private was AWOL and shouldn't have been tried at court martial.
More to Come. --Brock-Perry
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