By His Excellency William Cosby, captain general and governour in chief of the provinces New-York, New-Jersey ... A proclamation. : Whereas by the contrivance of some evil disposed and disaffected persons, divers journals or printed news papers (entitled, The New-York weekly journal ..) have been caused to be printed and published by John Peter Zenger ... I have thought fit ... to issue this proclamation, hereby promising a reward of fifty pounds to such person or persons who shall discover the author or authors of the said ... journals or printed news-papers ... Given under my hand and seal at Fort-George in New-York this sixth day of November ... in the year of our Lord 1734.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

New York (Colony). Governor (1732-1736 : Cosby)

Contributor:

Cosby, William, approximately 1690-1736.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 3810.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zenger, John Peter, 1719-1751.

Zenger, John Peter.

New-York weekly journal.

Bounties--New York (State).

Bounties.

Seditious libel--New York (State).

Seditious libel.

New York (State)--Politics and government--To 1775.

New York (State).

Politics and government.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 sheet (1 unnumbered page))

Place of Publication:

[New York] : [Printed by William Bradford], [1734]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Signed: W. Cosby. By His Excellency's command, Fred. Morris, d. cl. Conc. God save the King.

Royal arms at head of title.

Ascribed to the press of William Bradford by Evans.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 3810).

Cited in:

Evans 3810

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