...under the leadership of M'Cracken [McCracken?],
and two of his associates named Watt and Queeny,
they proceeded across the country by Collin and
Roughfort to near Derriaghy, where, hearing of
the rebel defeat at Ballynahinch, and their
condition being now absolutely desperate, they threw
away their arms, each man resolving to shift for
himself as he best could. A few days afterwards
M'Cracken [McCracken?] and his two associates
were arrested upon the commons near Carrickfergus,
and forthwith brought to trial by court-martial.
Watt and Queeny were sentenced to transportation,
but after a long period of imprisonment they were
permitted to transport themselves to America.
M'Cracken [McCracken?] was condemned to suffer the
extreme penalty of the law, and, on the 17th of
July, he was publicly executed in Belfast.
