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Disaffected persons court martialed, petitioning, pardoned

Disaffected persons court martialed, petitioning, pardoned

Posted: 29 Sep 2014 7:57PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Coventry
I have been researching two brothers from Columbia Co. [then Albany Co. and in an area claimed by Massachusetts] during the Revolutionary War and used the New York Historical Manuscripts: Revolutionary Papers and NEW YORK IN THE REVOLUTION AS COLONY AND STATE. The latter lists Robert and Edward B. Coventry as British Prisoners of War. In the first source, the documents are an account of a court martial on or around 13 June 1777, the result of which is Robert is condemned to death. On the 18th of June he gets a full pardon. But then on 14 July 1777 he writes a petition saying he has been held for 8 weeks without a hearing and wants to be released. Edward's petition says the same thing. Can someone make sense of this?

Re: Disaffected persons court martialed, petitioning, pardoned

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 4:11AM GMT
Classification: Query
Could there have been a separate charge for which there was no court-martial, but for which each man was held, possibly awaiting another trial?

Re: Disaffected persons court martialed, petitioning, pardoned

Posted: 11 Oct 2014 1:00PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Coventry, Van Hoesen, Hogeboom
Good thought. They might also have been still held as pardoned only from death, so now what? I am curious as to whether they were part of a large group who were marched off to NH and held there. But Robert Coventry says in his petition he "is ready to take the Oath of Allegiance and to comply with any other propositions . . . . " ". . . has always behaved himself as a good subject to the State Doing his Duty at all times when called upon which can be Testify'd by the officers of the Company to which yr petitioner belongs . . ." July 14, 1777, State Prison, Strand. [Do you know its location?] Petitions 33:424
At some point Robert was serving in Lt. Hendrick Van Hoesen's Company under Col. Jeremiah Hogeboom, "a Regiment of Foot." I have no dates, however. Perhaps he returned to this after his release. He would have been about 30 at this time, a Scots-Irish arrived to join his father about 1770.
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