To prevent interruption, he called "out and told them that if they attempted to oppose him, he would "order his men to Are on them ; and preparation was made for doing it, " in case it should be needful. This appearance instantly cleared the " street, when Captain Sears and his party rode off in triiiniph, with the " Iwoty they were pleased to take away." Dunlap, ( History of New York, ii., .\ppeudix, ccxx,) erroneously stated that the destruction of the printing-office was effected " by the Ouinflclicut Light Horse," on the fourth of December. Bancroft, {History of the I'niUd Stales, original edit, viii., 275,) said Sears was "vexed at his want of influence, iniimtient ut "being overlooked, and naturally inclined to precipitate counsels;'" and in the same work, centenary edition, v., 184, the same author stated

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

The progress of the banditti, through Westchestercounty, on its return, was necessarily slow, since it finished, at that time, the work of pillage among the farmers of that County, which it had c(>mmenced on its outward march -- it left the City of New York on Thursday, at two o'clock ; and it did not reach Horse-neck, where the detachment which was guardthat Sears "deserved a high appointment in the American JJai-y," which lie did nut receive ; that he was " impatient at being overlooked," etc. Not the slightest allusion is made to the doings of the banditti in Westchester-county, in either of the editions of that much-praised work. Lossing, {Field Book of (he Revohdioyi, ii., 7911, 797,) stated that Mr. Rivington " aided by his Koyal Gazetteer," was very influential ; that he had no regard for the truth nor for "common fairness ; that Sears had gone to Connecticut " to plan schemes for the future with ardent Whigs ; " that the type which was stolen from Rivington was converted into bullets; etc. ; but the truth is that tlie Eoynl Uiizette was not established until December, 1777, as he had stated on the opposite jiageof the Field Book; that Rivington publifhed everything of news and political papers, regardless of party ; that Sears had removed his family and himself to New Haven, to get out of the way of threatened danger and to pout over personal grievances ; and that the printers in Connecticut were too glad to increase their limited suj>p]i( s of type to convert the stolen type belonging to Rivington into bullets, for vhich cinimon and far cheaper lead was better adapted.