"shoplifting murder car theft shoes" This is not the answer to the question. The answer is he wrote in the newspaper about Governor Cosby and the Governor thought it was fake but it was real about him. The governor didn't like it so he got thrown in jail
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He was a German-born American, a NYC printer, publisher, journalist and editor. In 1735 his trial was an important factor in the development of a free press.
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Colonists of john peter Zenger's day might have read any of 48 different newspapers. Today, Americans have access to a much larger number of newspapers, both in print and on the internet. The first daily paper in the united States, the Pennsylvania Evening Post, was published in 1783.
He wrote something bad about the governor and was arrested even though it was true.
Zenger was found not guilty of libel because the articles were based on fact & were true .
Peter Salem died in 1816. Peter Salem lived at Leicester, Massachusetts and was a cane weaver after the American Revolution He died in a public poorhouse in 1816 at the age of 66. In 1882 a monument was put up by the town of Framingham, Massachusetts at the Old Burying Ground.
Some people were imprisoned for being loyalists during the Revolutionary War. Most of then were put in jail for actually helping the British.
John Hancock was President of the Second Continental Congress.
I believe John Hancock was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. When someone tells you to sign your John Hancock, they mean to put your signature on what ever it is they are referring to.Write your signatureThat just means : to sign your name somewhere-- to put your signature on a piece of paper.This is an idiomatic expression meaning your own signature or mark.It immortalises the first signatory of the Declaration of Independence.
John Brown was hanged Dec 2nd, 1859, for treason against the State of Virginia. John Brown, and his sons, and followers, once hacked 5 pro-slavery men to death with broad swords. All in the name of defeating Satan and his legions. Future, Confederate/ Rebel/ Southern/ General, Robert E. Lee, led the capture of John Brown, after Brown, his sons, and followers, armed with guns and rifles, tookover a building and held hostages. Brown was severely wounded and his sons killed. He was called the Meteor of the Civil War. Some likened him to Christ. Others thought, never was a man more justly hanged. John Brown once stood up in church and raised his right hand and vowed before God and man that he was from that day forward dedicating his life to the "destruction" of slavery. "Destruction" was exactly what he intended. Perhaps John Brown should have taken to heart what Christ commanded Saint Peter at Christ's arrest when Christ shouted to Peter, "Put your sword back in its place!"