Pam, Barbara and others... Thank you for your info and insights! I just received this from Thomas Gull: > Hi, Liz. I'm watching the Dutch Colonies digests so I saw your > message about the Abraham Lott involved in a robbery at Van Ness's in > Kinderhook. I think the following indicates the two robbers were > executed, though it doesn't specifically mention their names. From > context, it looks like the right pair, though. That would mean this > isn't our Abraham, of course. / Tom > > > http://www.americanrevolution.org/t1778.html > > AMERICANREVOLUTION.ORG > > MILITARY JOURNAL - 1778 > > May 16th.-In various parts of this state [Tom: New York] the > inhabitants are constantly infested with a banditti of tories and > other villains, following the practice of robbing and plundering, > stealing horses and cattle, and often committing murder on those who > oppose them; and even on innocent persons. A number of these vile > wretches have been apprehended and condemned; two of them were > executed yesterday. They had been convicted of robbing the house of > Mr. Van Ness, whose son, being a captain in our militia, was taken by > them and cruelly murdered. The criminals were conducted to the > gallows, by a guard of soldiers, and were attended by a prodigious > number of spectators. They manifested, at the gallows, the most > agonizing horrors. One of them held in his band a Bible till the > halter deprived him of the power of holding it. Had this sacred volume > been his companion in early life, it might have been the means of > averting this awful and untimely death. Peggie, another LOTT researcher sent this thought: >I believe this refers to Abraham Lott the last Treasurer of the COLONY of >NY. At the end of the Revolution there were funds that had been collected >and not yet accounted for in his accounts. At the time he was a very ill >man and many of his papers had been destroyed during the occupation of Long >Island. If my memory serves me, I think Mr Miller was doing business with Mr >Lott and they were probably trying to recover debts from Van Ness (a distant >relative of Lott's)that were to be paid and weren't. > The plot thickens?!? Liz