Complete list of the 108 Lower Canadians prosecuted before the general court-martial of Montreal in 1838-1839. The trials occurred between December 6, 1838 and 1 May 1839, following the suspension of habeas corpus on November 8, 1838. Nine of the persons in custody were acquitted, and 99 sentenced to death. 12 patriots were hanged in public between December 1838 and February 1839. 58 of the 99 who were initially condemned to death saw their sentence commuted into deportation to Australia on September 27, 1839. (Pardoned in 1843, they returned home in 1845.) 29 were freed under bail or condition.Colborne, John (1839). Report of the State Trials, Before a General Court Martial , volume 2, p. 567
The 58 deported to Australia
Saint-Clément Michel Alary - carpenter Désiré Bourbonnais - blacksmith Jacques Goyette - farmer and stone man Joseph Goyette - carpenter André Papineau dit Montigny - blacksmith François-Xavier Prévost - merchant and innkeeper Toussaint Rochon - teamster and painter Basile Roy - farmer Charles Roy dit Lapensée père - farmer Joseph Roy dit Lapensée, son of Louis - day labourer
L'Acadie Théodore Béchard - owner Antoine Coupal dit Lareine - farmer Etienne Langlois - farmer
Sainte-Martine Charles Bergevin dit Langevin, père - farmer Constant Buisson - blacksmith and bailiff Ignace-Gabriel Chèvrefils - farmer Joseph Dumouchel, - farmer - brother of Louis Louis Dumouchel - innkeeper and cultivator Jean Laberge - farmer and carpenter François-Xavier Touchette - farmer and blacksmith Louis Turcot - farmer
Napierville François Bigonesse dit Beaucaire - owner Louis Defaillette - farmer Jacques-David Hébert - farmer Joseph-Jacques Hébert - farmer Charles Huot - notary Pierre Lavoie - farmer David-Drossin Leblanc - farmer Hubert Drossin-Leblanc - farmer Joseph Marceau dit Petit-Jacques - farmer and cloth weaver Gabriel-Achille Morin - merchant (son of Pierre-Hector) Pierre-Hector Morin - ship captain Joseph Paré - farmer
Terrebonne Charles-Guillaume Bouc - clerk Edouard-Pascal Rochon - teamster and painter
Saint-Césaire Louis Bourdon - farmer and merchant Jean-Baptiste Bousquet - farmer and grain miller François Guertin - carpenter
Montréal Léandre Ducharme, clerk
Saint-Timothée
David Gagnon - farmer and carpenter François-Xavier Prieur - merchant
Châteauguay Louis-Guérin Dussault - merchant and baker Joseph Guimond - farmer and carpenter François-Maurice Lepailleur - painter Samuel Newcomb - Médecin Jean-Louis Thibert - farmer Jean-Marie Thibert - farmer Jean-Baptiste Trudelle - farmer and carpenter
Saint-Rémi Hippolyte Lanctôt - notary Louis Pinsonnault - farmer
Saint-Constant Etienne Languedoc - farmer Moyse Longtin, fils de Jacques - farmer
Saint-Philippe Pascal Pinsonnault - farmer
Saint-Edouard René Pinsonnault - farmer Théophile Robert - farmer
Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Jérémie Rochon - machine operator
Alburg, Vermont Benjamin Mott - farmer
The 26 released under bail François Camyré Antoine Charbonneau Joseph Cousineau David Demers Paul Gravelle Louis Héneault Louis Julien Joseph L'Écuyer Michel Longtin dit Jérôme, son Léon Leclaire Charles Mondat Clovis Patenaude Charles Rapin Antoine Roussin, alias Joseph Joseph Roy François St-Louis Thomas Surprenant, dit Lafontaine François Surprenant François Trepanier, son Édouard Tremblay Phillippe Tremblay François Vallé Bennoni Verdon Joseph Wattier dit Lanoie
The 12 hanged December 21, 1838 Joseph-Narcisse Cardinal, lawyer and Member of Parliament Joseph Duquet, notary January 18, 1839 Pierre-Théophile Decoigne, hotelman and notary François-Xavier Hamelin, farmer Joseph-Jacques Robert, farmer Ambroise Sanguinet, farmer Charles Sanguinet, farmer February 15, 1839 Amable Daunais, fermier François-Marie-Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier, notary Charles Hindelang, merchant and military officer Pierre-Rémi Narbonne, painter and bailiff François Nicolas, teacher
The nine acquitted Jean-Baptiste Dozois, father Antoine Doré Louis Lesiege, aka Lesage Louis Lemelin Joseph Longtin James Perrigo Jacques Robert Édouard Therien Isidore Tremblay
The three freed on condition Jean-Baptiste-Henri Brien (remain at a distance of 600 miles from the province) Antoine Côté (remain within the province) Guillaume Lévesque (leave the province)
Notes
References Faubert, Michel (2003). Liste des patriotes prisonniers (list of some 1366 persons detained during the period 1837-1840) Messier, Alain (2002). Dictionnaire encyclopédique et historique des patriotes. 1837-1838, Montréal: Guérin, 497 p. Boyer, Raymond (1966). Les crimes et les châtiments au Canada français du XVIIe au XXe siècle, Montréal: le Cercle du livre de France, 542 p. Borthwick, John Douglas (1866). History of the Montreal prison from A.D. 1784 to A.D. 1886 : containing a complete record of the Troubles of 1837-1838, burning of the Parliament buildings in 1849, the St. Alban's raiders, 1864, the two Fenian raids of 1866 and 1870 [...], Montreal: A. Periard, bookseller, publisher and importer, 269 p. Colborne, John (1839). Report of the State Trials, Before a General Court Martial Held at Montreal in 1838-9: Exhibiting a Complete History of the Late Rebellion in Lower Canada, Montreal: Armour and Ramsay, (online: volume 1, volume 2)
External links BANQ, Copies des sentences de mort prononcées contre Joseph Robert, Ambroise Sanguinet, Charles Sanguinet, Pascal Pinsonnault, François-Xavier Hamelin, Théophile Robert et Jacques Longtin