    
Title: Sergeant Thomas Hickey Description: Sergeant Thomas Hickey, formerly a member of General George Washington's personal guard, is hanged, after being convicted of "exciting and joining in a mutiny and sedition" his execution approved of by Washington, Hickey had been arrested on June 14, 1776, for passing counterfeit money and reportedly involving himself in a plot that included as many as 700 others, all close to Washington, to kidnap or murder the general and that he and others were in the pay of British officers and Tories (much of this was simply gossip); counterfeit money; homicide; kidnapping; murder; Location: New York, New York: June 28, 1776 Keywords: plots, secret plans, sedition, traitors Orientation: Vertical Dimensions: 1200 x 4766 (5.72 MPixels) (3.97) Print Size: 10.2 x 40.4 cm; 4.0 x 15.9 inches File Size: 16.38 MB (17,176,890 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000095469 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
