'A letter from .luliii Case, from the County of Suft'olk, on Long Islanil, "to the Printer of the \rii--Ynrk 'IdzeUeer," and pulilished in Hii-'mtjImCfi Scw-York <l<i::,-ltecr, No. ill, New- York, Thursday, January 1'2, 1775, narrated the method in which those who were not inclined to favor the theories and practises of the revolutionary faction were inveigled into that Tavern, and, there, subjected to the teachings of Alexander McDougal, Isaac Seai-u, and others of that faction ; and a descrijition of the insults and outrages inflicted on those who were inclined to olijcct to the subject matters of those teachings, by those ale-house "patriots," especially by Isaac Sears, may also be seen, in the same letter.

Tlie atteinpleil reply to .lohn Case, in which Isaac Scars subsequently attenipteil to raise new issues instead of meeting old ones, served only to establish, more clearly, the truthfulness of Case's original statement ; and those who shall incline to pursue the inquiry, may find it in Holt's Xew-Yuik Juiuml, No. 1674, Nkw-York, Thursday, February 2, 1775.

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City of New York ; and, in the latter part of November, 1775, Isaac Sears was safely housed in New Haven, although it is evident that he continued to correspond with the leaders of the Rebellion, in the former City.

On Monday, the twentieth of November, 1775, that cowardly ruffian, Isaac Sears, accompanied with sixteen others of the same class, all of them mounted, left New Haven, in Connecticut, for the purpose of regulating Westchester-county. ^ It had become a favorite ))astime, among the rowdies on the borders of Connecticut, as it has been a favorite pastime among Texan rowdies of a later period, in their country, to make depredatory raids on those who lived on the opposite side of the river-boundary ; and those " border ruffians," in revolutionary Connecticut, had been encouraged to raid on the conservative farmers, in Westchester-county ; to overpower those farmers with nunibers and, especially after the disarming process had deprived the latter of the means for protecting themselves or their property, to rob them of whatever could be carried away ; to return to their own side of the Byram-river, well-laden with whatever had pleased them best, on the farms and in the farm-houses which they had visited ; and to enjoy, in their own " Christian New England," the stolen products of other men's honest and earnest toil, and to be cheered, as " jjatriots," by their " Christian New " England " neighbors.