[1]Cadwallader Colden, History of William Cosby’s Administration as Governor of the Province of New York, and of Lieutenant-Governor George Clarke’s Administration through 1737 (New York Historical Society Collections, 1935), p. 286.

[2]Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, ed. E. B. O’Callaghan (Albany, 1853-87), V, 937.

[3]William Smith, The History of the Late Province of New York, from Its Discovery to the Appointment of Governor Colden in 1762 (New York, 1829-30), II, 3.

[4]Livingston Rutherfurd, John Peter Zenger, His Press, His Trial and a Bibliography of Zenger Imprints (New York, 1904), p. 15.

[5]N.Y. Col. Docs., V, 949.

[6]Colden, op. cit., p. 298.

[7]N.Y. Col. Docs., V, 955.

[8]Colden, op. cit., pp. 298-299.

[9]Ibid., p. 313.

[10]New York Gazette, November 5, 1733.

[11]Ibid., January 7, 1734.

[12]Ibid., March 18, 1734.

[13]N.Y. Col. Docs., V, 940.

[14]Documents Relating to the Colonial History of the State of New Jersey, ed. William A. Whitehead (Newark, 1880-1928), V, 359.

[15]Ibid., V, 360.

[16]N.Y. Col. Docs., VI, 21.

[17]Ibid., VI, 5.

[18]New York Weekly Journal, January 21, 1734.

[19]Ibid., January 28, 1734.

[20]New York Gazette, February 4, 1734.

[21]New York Weekly Journal, November 26, 1733.

[22]Ibid., December 31, 1733.

[23]New York Gazette, April 1, 1734.

[24]Colden, op. cit., p. 323.

[25]N.Y. Col. Docs., V, 978.

[26]Ibid., V, 975.