Here is a site that relates a series of trials of "Traitors" who were hung in Ancaster(Hamilton) Ontario in 1814 http://war1812.tripod.com/ancaster.html Interestingly many of the surnames names are of prominent "Loyalist" families in the area: McNeil, Overholtzer, Peacock, Petit, Crysler etc. Again a sign that politics often crossed over to open warfare even in family units. Nelson Denton.