Very incomplete list!in chronological order | |  Jacob Leisler (c.1640-1691) — of New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.Born in Bockenheim, Holy Roman Empire (now part of Frankfurt am Main,Germany),about 1640.Fur trader;tobaccobusiness; following the English Revolution of 1688, which broughtProtestant rulers William and Mary to power, he led "Leisler'sRebellion" and seized control of the colony;ColonialGovernor of New York, 1689-91; provided land for a settlement ofFrench Huguenot refugees (now the city of New Rochelle); followingthe arrival of a new royal governor, he wasousted.Arrested,charged withtreason,tried,convicted,andsentenced todeath;executed byhanginganddecapitation,in New York,New YorkCounty, N.Y.,May16,1691 (ageabout 51years). Four years later, he was posthumously exonerated by anact of Parliament.Original interment ata private or family graveyard, New York County, N.Y.;subsequent interment atDutchChurch Burial Ground, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment to unknownlocation; statue atBroadview Avenue, New Rochelle, N.Y. | | John Doyle Lee (1812-1877) — also known asJohn D. Lee — Born in Kaskaskia,RandolphCounty, Ill.,September6, 1812.Member ofUtahterritorial House of Representatives, 1858.Mormon.Involved in the Mountain Meadows massacre on September 11, 1857, whena Mormon militia and Paiute Indian tribesmen slaughtered about 120settlers who had been traveling through Utah by wagon train;indictedformurderalmost twenty years later, andtried in1875; the first trial ended in a hung jury;retriedin 1876;convictedandsentenced todeath; released for a time in order to settle his businessaffairs;executed byfiringsquad, at Mountain Meadows,WashingtonCounty, Utah,March23, 1877 (age64 years, 198days).Interment atPanguitchCemetery, Panguitch, Utah.
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