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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 2 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Trials. (search)
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 disorderly retreat; third, disrespect to the commander-in-chief; suspended from comman
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
..July 1, 1731 Rip Van Dam, acting governor......1731 [Population in the province of New York, 50,289; New York City, 8,632; total number of negroes, 7,231.] 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......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 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.