The trials resulted in treason convictions and subsequent execution of Upper Canada residents who were found to have violently aided the enemy.
During the war, a number of settlers from the Niagara and London Districts took up arms against their neighbours in aid of American raiders.
[4] Eight were hanged at the Burlington Heights British military camp on July 20, 1814 and their heads chopped off and displayed on poles.
The eight executed were Aaron Stevens, Adam Crysler, Dayton Lindsey, Noah Payne Hopkins, George Peacock, Jr., Isaiah Brink, Benjamin Simmons and John Dunham.
[6] Others convicted included Jacob Overholser, Garrett Neil and Isaac Petit, who died of typhus.