JOHN PETER ZENGER’S NEW YORK WEEKLY JOURNAL for June 3, 1735 Printed While Imprisoned

The Monday after his arrest the “Journal” did not appear, and in the next number he issued the following notice:

“To all my Subscribers and Benefactors who take my weekly Journall. Gentlemen, Ladies and Others; AS you last week were Disappointed of my Journall, I think it Incumbent upon me, to publish my Apoligy which is this. * I was Arrested, taken and Imprisoned * whereupon I * had not the Liberty of Pen, Ink, or Paper, or to see, or speak with People… I have had since that time the Liberty of Speaking through the Hole of the Door, to my Wife and Servants… and I hope for the future by the Liberty of Speaking to my servant thro’ the Hole of the Door of the Prison, to entertain you with my weokly Journall as formerly.