Charles T. McCumber

Released
Gender:Male
Era:1800s
State:New York
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Tenant Rights Anti-Rent War
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Biography

Charles T. McCumber was a New York Anti-Renter convicted of second-degree robbery and sentenced to seven years in state prison; his case apparently arose from a separate Anti-Rent confrontation rather than the killing of Undersheriff Steele. He was freed by Governor John Young's mass Anti-Rent pardon on January 27, 1847.

Case

Charges: Second-degree robbery.
Arrested: 1845
Incarcerated: 1845
Released: Jan 27, 1847
Sentence: Seven years in state prison. Freed by Governor John Young's mass Anti-Rent pardon of January 27, 1847. One account says eighteen Anti-Rent prisoners were still in the state prisons at that point, so one of the nineteen recorded here had already left custody — the surviving lists do not agree on which — and the pardon date recorded as the release may overstate one man's term. Accounts differ on where the Anti-Rent prisoners were held: some say the Delaware County men went first to Sing Sing, while later accounts place at least Boughton and Earle at Clinton Prison before the pardon, transfers likely explaining the disagreement — so no institution is asserted here. Verdict as recorded: Yes — of second-degree robbery, 1845. Charges as recorded: Second-degree robbery — an Anti-Rent confrontation apparently separate from the Steele killing.
Convicted: Yes

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