Upon the arrival of Governor Sloughter, in March, 1691, he was imprisoned, and then, by swift proceedings, sentenced to die the death of a traitor. On May 17, less than two months after giving up the reins of government, he was hanged, together with his son-in-law, Jacob Milbourne. No appeal of his case to England was permitted, a melancholy circumstance in view of the action of Parliament four years later in formally reversing his attainder of treason after a dispassionate review of all the facts. The name of Jacob Leisler is conspicuously and honorably identified with the early history of Westchester County through his purchase and sale to the Huguenots, already noticed, of about two-thirds of the old Manor of Pelham, a tract of some six thousand acres. There is no doubt that in making this purchase and in disposing of the lands to the French religious refugees he was animated entirely by unselfish and sympathetic considerations. A German Protestant by birth, and, moreover, the son of I.KISLER S TOMB. a clergyman of the Reformed Church, he became known in New York as a zealous supporter and promoter of the Protestant religion. It was in consequence of the reputation which he thus enjoyed that the Huguenots, before emigrating to New York, applied to him to select ami secure a suitable locality for their contemplated settlement. As a few individual Huguenots had already built homes on Pelham Manor, that quarter was already indicated as the one to be chosen. In the original purchase from John and Rachel Pell, September 20, 1689, "Jacob Leisler, of the City of New York, merchant," was the sole person interested; and his conscientious spirit in the transaction is indicated by the significant provision of the deed that, besides the six thousand acres conveyed !o him, a parcel of one hundred acres should be set apart from Pell's property as a free gift to the French church.