Another form of humiliating torture for Loyalists was ‘riding the rails’. This involved being placed on two sharp rails, one leg on each, each rail was carried on the shoulders of two tall men. This was the punishment for Seth Seeley, a Connecticut farmer, who in 1776 was punished for signing a declaration to support the King’s laws. He was placed on rails and carried through the streets, put into stocks and was besmeared with eggs and robbed of his money for entertainment.