Samuel Hinge

Samuel Hinge was born August 23, 1755, in the city of Canton, Connecticut. He was taught how to be a successful salesman and merchant by his father Millard at an early age, and before his involvement in the military he was a widely-known salesman and merchant in the area. Towards the peak of the Revolutionary War in 1776, Samuel joined the Military. He was stationed at Fort Terrance in Attaway, New York from 1777-1778 where he purposely managed to avoid being deployed into combat several times. In July of 1778 it had been revealed that Samuel was working as a spy for the British forces, and that he was bribed by the British to expose different classified details and plots of the Rebellion agenda. Samuel exposed to the British that the Rebellion forces were going to attempt to raid weapons and ammunition from a British-occupied farm in Williamsburg, NY, on September 21, 1777. When the raid was attempted the British were ready, and quickly overwhelmed the 10 Rebellion soldiers who were going to carry out the raid. The only survivor was Matthew Henderson who managed to escape, the other 9 soldiers were killed.

Samuel's court appearance was on September 8, 1778 in Brimford, New York. Because of his involvement in the murder of the 9 Rebellion soldiers at Williamsburg, he was to be undoubtedly sentenced to death. He was unanimously sentenced to death by hanging due to treason, and 9 counts of murder. The execution was carried out the following day in the center of Heeley, New York, on September 9, 1778, at around 3:00 PM that afternoon.