Henry Gale responded to Paul Revere's call to Lexington and was
honored as a patriot. Yet a decade later, he was considered a
traitor for his leadership role in Shays' Rebellion-a movement to
stop courts from prosecuting and jailing the many Revolutionary War
veterans unable to pay their debts in the post-war credit crisis.
After a military conflict between the insurgents and the militia,
Henry Gale was arrested, found guilty of treason and sentenced to
"be hanged by the neck until he be dead." Marched up to the
scaffold, the gathered crowd watched as the noose was placed around
his neck and prayers were said. Moments before this father of young
children was to be dropped from the land of the living, the sheriff
pulled out a piece of paper and read a statement from Governor John
Hancock. This dramatic account was first published in the Daughters
of the American Revolution magazine, American Spirit (March/April
2008).
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