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William Vroman

AKA: Wm. Vroman; Bill Vroman
Released
Era:1840s
State:New York
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Anti-Rent War
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Biography

William Vroman belonged to the anti-rent community on Blenheim Hill, New York, where tenant farmers resisted the manorial rent system. He was detained during the August 1845 crackdown and held under guard in Gilboa. His recollections of the movement and his imprisonment were recorded by historian Albert Champlin Mayham in 1906.

Case

Charges: Detention during the 1845 Anti-Rent War crackdown; formal charge not established
Arrested: August 1845
Sentence: Held for several days in August 1845. Mayham names Vroman among the prisoners taken to Ira B. Rose's tavern at Gilboa and describes him still in custody on the following Sunday. Vroman later disputed an account that the prisoners had been paroled over the weekend. The account describes lawyer Thomas Smith obtaining the remaining prisoners' release. Exact admission and release dates and any formal sentence are not established.