Moses Earle

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1800s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year 5 Months 20 Days
Support
Tenant Rights Anti-Rent War
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Biography

Elderly tenant farmer at whose Andes, Delaware County, New York farm Undersheriff Osman N. Steele was killed on August 7, 1845. Earle had withheld rent on his patroon-system leasehold and the rent-distress sale of his cattle that morning drew hundreds of disguised 'Calico Indian' Anti-Rent militants. Convicted of manslaughter by Judge Amasa J. Parker at the Delhi assize in October 1845 and sentenced to life imprisonment at Clinton State Prison at Dannemora as one of the older Anti-Renters whose tenancy was the immediate cause of the confrontation. Pardoned by Governor John Young in 1847.

Case

Clinton State Prison
Charges: Manslaughter (Andes rent-distress confrontation, killing of Osman N. Steele)
Arrested: Aug 7, 1845
Incarcerated: Aug 7, 1845
Released: Jan 27, 1847
Sentence: Life imprisonment on the first-degree manslaughter plea; pardoned by Governor John Young in January 1847. Verdict as recorded: Yes — by guilty plea to first-degree manslaughter at the Delhi sessions, 1845.
Judge: Amasa J. Parker
Convicted: Yes
Plead: Guilty — to first-degree manslaughter, having been indicted for murder
Institution State: New York

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