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Trials.
The following is a list of the most notable trials in the United States:
Anne Hutchinson; sedition and heresy (the Antinomian controversy); imprisoned and banished......1637
Trials of Quakers in Massachusetts......1656-61
Jacob Leisler, New York, convicted and executed for treason......May 16, 1691
Trials for witchcraft, Massachusetts......1692
Thomas Maule, for slanderous publications and blasphemy, Massachusetts......1696
Nicholas Bayard, treason......1702
John Peter Zenger, for printing and publishing libels on the colonial government, November, 1734, acquitted......1735
William Wemms, James Hartegan, William McCauley, and other British soldiers, in Boston, Mass., for the murder of Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, and Patrick Carr.......March 5, 1770
Maj.-Gen. Charles Lee, court-martial after the battle of Monmouth; found guilty of, first, disobedience of orders in not attacking the enemy; second, unnecessary and