 Prisoners were taken to Fort Montgomery and tried for treason against the recently established state of New York.Most were pardoned in exchange for committing to serve in the Continental Army; Rose and a few other holdouts were hanged.The failure of Rose's mission and the burning of Kingston by British forces that year severely blunted Tory sentiment in the Catskills, and for the remainder of the war the region posed no threat to the Patriot cause.