Posted on 02/15/2024 4:49:56 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1673, Indians named Kaelkompte and Keketamape were sentenced to hanging and gibbeting for the murder of an English soldier near Albany, New York. (The date this sentence was executed, if it was not immediate, has been lost to history.)
This place had been known as Beverwijck up until a few years prior, when the English gave it its new and still-current christening* after taking it away New Netherland during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. The transition of its legal organs was a more gradual process — with a long survival of Dutch practices upon which the English were gradually overlaid.
The case at hand was a milestone in that jurisprudence: it appears to be the first documented jury trial (pdf) in Albany — a practice imported from England and reflective of the growing sway of the new boss.....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
There was a lot of violence on both sides. This was the journal of my 8th great grandfather.
Journal of the Second Esopus War, by Capt. Martin Kregier
With an account of the Massacre at Wildwyck, (now Kingston,)
the names of those killed, wounded, and taken prisoners, by the Indians on that occasion, 1663.
In 1664 three English war ships appeared in the Hudson River with their guns pointed at Manhattan and the Dutch gave up without a shot being fired...
Sorry but my 8th GGF Isaac de Forest (son of Jesse) was one of the Burgers who signed the surrender...
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