John Peter Zenger

Today marks the 279th anniversary of the acquittal of John Peter Zenger on charges of seditious libel. We write about this in Footprints in New York in our chapter on the Delancey family, as James Delancey was the Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court at the time, and basically instructed the jury to find Zenger guilty.

I blogged about the Zenger trial in more depth back in 2010 over at Inside the Apple. You can read that post here: http://blog.insidetheapple.net/2010/08/libel-trial-of-john-peter-zenger.html.

In other news, I got my website up and running today:
www.jamesnevius.com. Check it out!