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Execution of Col. Isaac Hayne, and much more...
Execution of Col. Isaac Hayne, and much more...
Item # 687094
October 11, 1781
THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL, New Haven, October 11, 1781
* American Revolutionary War original
* American Issac Hayne's execution - hanging
Most of the front page is taken up with various correspondences from and to C. Fraser, Isaac Hayne, Lord Rawdon & John Collock, with a prefacing note: "The following are authentic copies of sundry papers which Col. Isaac Hayne, two days before his execution, delivered to a friend with an injunction...".
Col. Isaac Hayne was one of the most prominent Americans to be executed by the British during the Revolutionary War. He commanded an American raid which captured Brigadier-General Andrew Williamson, an American Loyalist. Colonel Nisbet Balfour, the British commander in Charleston during the 1781 siege of Charleston, fearing that Williamson would he hanged as a traitor, sent a column to intercept the raiding party. The interception was successful. There a skirmish resulting in the defeat of the raiding party, the release of Williamson and the capture of Hayne.
Isaac Hayne, although a prisoner of war, was sentenced to death by hanging by the British because in the opinion of the British court martial he had broken his earlier parole not to take up arms against the Crown.
Pages 2 and 3 are almost entirely filled with Revolutionary War reports, including further comments on the execution of Col. Hayne. Much talk of the Southern campaign with mention of Gen. Greene, General Washington, General James Clinton, General Marion, and more. One item dated Oct. 3 notes: "We hear that general Washington began his operations against York, about the 25th ult., & that two French sixty-fours have forced their way up the river some distance above York." It would be two weeks later that Cornwallis would surrender to Washington here at Yorktown.
A great wealth of fine and historic content.
Four pages, never bound nor trimmed, mild wear at the two folds, some light browning & damp staining.
Category: Revolutionary War
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