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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alexander, James, 1690-1756 (search)
f New York, to which he emigrated from Scotland in 1715, where he was born in 1690. He had fled from Scotland because of his peril there as an adherent of the Young Pretender. He was accompanied by William Smith, afterwards chief-justice of the province and its historian. He was made surveyor-general of New Jersey and New York. was secretary of the latter colony, and attained eminence in the profession of the law. As attorney-general of the province and occupant of other important positions, he became distinguished. He was one of the able counsel who defended the freedom of the press in the person of John Peter Zenger in 1735. Because of the part which he took in that famous trial he was arbitrarily excluded from the bar, but was reinstated in 1737. He was associated with Franklin and others in founding the American Philosophical Society. He was the father of William Alexander, known as Lord Stirling, a general in the Continental army. He died in New York City, April 2. 1756.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
s. 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 disor
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
William Cosby, governor of New York, arrives......Aug. 1, 1732 First stage runs between New York and Boston, round trip twenty-eight days......1732 John Peter Zenger establishes the New York Weekly journal in the interests of the people......Nov. 5, 1733 Zenger arrested for libel and imprisoned thirty-five weeks......NZenger arrested for libel and imprisoned thirty-five weeks......November, 1734 Andrew Hamilton, of Philadelphia, successfully defends Zenger......July, 1735 Governor Cosby dies......March 10, 1736 George Clarke, governor......1736 Law disfranchising Jews in New York......1738 Captain Norris, of the ship Tartar, lying in the harbor of New York, applies to the mayor for authority Zenger......July, 1735 Governor Cosby dies......March 10, 1736 George Clarke, governor......1736 Law disfranchising Jews in New York......1738 Captain Norris, of the ship Tartar, lying in the harbor of New York, applies to the mayor for authority to impress thirty seamen. The governor and council order the mayor to assent; but he refuses, and the matter is passed by......1738 Supposed negro plot to burn New York. Thirteen negroes burned, twenty hanged, and seventy transported to the West Indies......March, 1741 Sir George Clinton, governor......Sept. 20, 1743 Fr
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Zenger, John Peter 1680-1746 (search)
Zenger, John Peter 1680-1746 Printer; born in Germany, about 1680; came to America in 1700, and the governor and his party. At the same time Zenger was publishing a paper called the New York wee ballads, and serious charges that appeared in Zenger's Journal irritated Cosby and his council beyoys afterwards, by order of the same authority, Zenger was arrested and cast into prison on a charge am Alexander, father of Lord Stirling) took up Zenger's case with vigor. At the next term of the co. The grand jury had found no indictment, and Zenger was tried on information by the attorney-gener the colonies, was secretly employed to defend Zenger. To the astonishment of the court, he appeareained from the jury a verdict of acquittal for Zenger, on the ground that an alleged libel is justifrris said to Dr. John W. Francis: The trial of Zenger, in 1735, was the germ of American freedom—thear of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America. Zenger died in New York City in 174
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Present: (search)
from the record that in 1630 the spirit of home rule stirred the soul of Plymouth men, and Massachusetts resolved to hold a Legislature for its Settlements. It is in happy memory that in 1639 the Connecticut settlers adopted the fundamental orders for their self government, said to be the first written constitution of America. With pride we read in the records of New Jersey for 1680, its brave resolutions against illegal and tyrannous taxation. We recall with delight the heroism of John Peter Zenger, of New York, who bravely printed in his paper the demands of his people for political rights, and went to prison rather than debase his press. Not one ray would I withdraw from the radiant glory which floods our historic fields from the colonial stars that constituted the old Plymouth Colony. The appeal of this hour of fraternal graces is rather to that broad and just national spirit which will award to the old original South of the Colonies the largest of pride and praise for its
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
rd only through the press. A newspaper was established to defend the popular cause; and, in about a year after its establishment, its 1734 Nov 17. printer, John Peter Zenger, was imprisoned, on the charge of publishing false and seditious libels. The grand jury would find no bill against him, and the attorney-general filed an information. The counsel of Zenger took exceptions to the commissions of the judges, because they ran during pleasure, and because they had been granted without the consent of council. The court answered the objection by excluding those Who offered it from the bar. At the trial, the publishing was confessed; but the aged Andrew Hamilton, a lawyer of Philadelphia, pleading for Zenger, justified the publication by asserting its truth. You cannot be admitted, interrupted the chief justice, to give Chap. XXIII.} —the truth of a libel in evidence.—Then, said Hamilton to the jury, we appeal to you for witnesses of the facts. The jury have a right to determin
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Z. (search)
Z. Zealand, II. 258 Zenger, John Peter, III. 391 End of history of colonization.