History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
5 "A email detachment entered it," [the printing-office,] "and in about "three-quarters of an hour brought off the principal part of his types, " for which they offered to give an order on Lord Dunmoro " [who had previously stolen John Holt's type and prei's, at Sorfolk,] (The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Haves,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)
They "entered his" [Hivington' s] "house, demolislied his printing "apparatus, destroyed a part and carried off the remainder of his "types." -- (Jones's History of Xew York during the Revolutionary War,
i. , 66.)
See, also, Governor Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22, " On " Board the Ship Dutchess of Gordon New York Harbour, 6"' Dec "1'775 ;" etc.
8 Governor Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22, "On Board the Ship " Dutchess of Gordon New York Harbour Dec 1775."
' " They then faced and wheeled to the left, and marched out of town to " the tune of Yankee Doodle. A vast concourse of people assembled at "the Coffee House bridge on their leaving the ground, and gave them "three very hearty cheers."-- (T/ie Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Havex,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)
The Petition of the General Commillee of the City and Ontnty of New York, laid before the Provincial Congress, on the eighth of December, 1775, presented the general facts of the outrage on .James Kivington, whil* it also called for the protection of the City, by that body. The de-tpatch of Go vertwr Tryoti to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22, "On Board the ship "DuTrHE.ss OF Gordon New York Harbour G"" Dec 1775," described the raid on Westchester-county as well as that on the City of New York, and narrated the blustering threats which were made by Sears, to return with "a more numerous body of the Connecticut Riotere and to take "away the Records of the Colony." The letter of the Provincial Congress to the Governor of Connecticut, " In Provincial Congress, New- York, "12th Deer., 1775," recited the outrage in Westchester-county as well as that in the City ; but in such delicate terms as indicated that that tody was either in sympathy with the banditti or was intimidated by those who were so.