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* 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
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In American history important spokesmen included Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur ( 1735 – 1813 ), and John Taylor of Caroline ( 1753 – 1824 ) in the early national period.
In his 1781 book General History of Connecticut, the Reverend Samuel Peters ( 1735 – 1826 ) used it to describe various laws first enacted by Puritan colonies in the 17th century that prohibited various activities, recreational as well as commercial, on Sunday ( Saturday evening through Sunday night ).
David Brewster was born at the Canongate in Jedburgh, Roxburghshire to Margaret Key ( 1753 – 1790 ) and James Brewster ( c. 1735 – 1815 ), the rector of Jedburgh Grammar School and a teacher of high reputation.
A historian from Slesvig, Ulrik Petersen ( 1656 – 1735 ), wrote in the late 17th century that the flag hung in Slesvig cathedral till about 1660 until it simply crumbled away, thus ending its more than 400-year-old story.
Euler computed this sum to 20 decimal places with only a few terms of the Euler – Maclaurin formula in 1735.
La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).
1735 and Freedom
Freedom of worship was part of the city's foundation, and the trial for libel in 1735 of John Peter Zenger, editor of the New-York Weekly Journal established the principle of freedom of the press in the British colonies.
In 1710 he wrote his Discourse on the Five Points ( on the Five Points of Calvinism ) which eventually drew Calvinist responses from English Baptist John Gill in his The Cause of God and Truth ( 1735 ) and American Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards in his Freedom of the Will ( 1754 ).
1735 and press
The ( re ) introduction of the " not guilty " verdict was part of a wider movement during the 17th and 18th century which saw a gradual increase in the power of juries, such as the trial of William Penn in 1670, in which an English jury first gained the right to pass a verdict contrary to the law ( known as jury nullification ), and the trial of John Peter Zenger in New York in 1735 in which jury nullification is credited with establishing freedom of the press as firm right in what would become the United States.
The tradition of a free press owes much to John Peter Zenger, a New York publisher who was acquitted in his 1735 landmark court case, setting the precedent that truth was a legitimate defense against accusations of libel.
1735 and New
* Ignacy Krasicki ( Polish, 1735 – 1801 ), author of Fables and Parables ( 1779 ) and New Fables ( published 1802 )
The group into which Gardner claimed to be initiated, known as the New Forest coven, was small and utterly secret as claiming to be a witch was illegal in Britain since the Witchcraft Act of 1735 made claiming to predict the future, conjure spirits, or cast spells a crime, and likewise made an accusation of witchcraft a criminal offense ).
* Richard Smith ( Continental Congress ) ( 1735 – 1803 ), lawyer and New Jersey delegate to the Continental Congress
It replaced a grant of 1735 that awarded them Township No. 3 ( now Walpole, New Hampshire ), but which was ruled invalid when the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was redrawn to satisfy prior claims by the descendants of John Mason.
The town was chartered by Massachusetts Governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 as one in a line of nine forts intended to protect southwestern New Hampshire from Indian attack.
New Ipswich was granted in 1735 to 60 inhabitants of Ipswich, Massachusetts, from whence the name is derived, by Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher and the General Court ( Assembly ) of Massachusetts.
The town was granted by Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher in 1735 as " Number 5 " to settlers from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, who renamed it " New Hopkinton.
His work on original sin ( Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin, 1740, written 1735 ) was against the Calvinistic view of human nature, and was influential: witnessed in Scotland by Robert Burns ( Epistle to John Goudie ), and in New England, according to Jonathan Edwards.
He was the second of seven children to Israel Morey ( 1735 – 1809 ) and Martha Palmer ( 1733 – 1810 ) and was Born in Hebron, Connecticut, but moved to Orford, New Hampshire, with his family in 1768.
Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur ( December 31, 1735 – November 12, 1813 ), naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American writer.
The Massachusetts General Court in 1735 granted Captain Raymond and his company a township called Beverly-Canada ( now Weare ) as payment for their services, but that claim was ruled invalid after New Hampshire separated from Massachusetts in 1741.
The town was first part of a township chartered as " Salem-Canada " in 1735 by Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher of Massachusetts, which then held authority over New Hampshire.
Baptised 4 September 1722 ( New Style ) in Lincoln, England, his father was a country gentleman and soldier whose poor health and early death in 1735 caused the family to fall upon hard times.
The trial of John Peter Zenger in 1735 was a seditious libel prosecution for Zenger's publication of criticisms of the Governor of New York, William Cosby.
This 1735 decision in New York helped to establish that truth is a defense to an accusation of libel.
Handsome Lake was born around 1735 in the Seneca village of Conewaugus, located on the Genesee River near present-day Avon, New York.
Abiel Foster ( 8 August 1735 – 6 February 1806 ) was an American clergyman and statesman from Canterbury, New Hampshire.
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