History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

It was afterwards, how ever, known to have aided the Amcr- " leans much, and was under the control of Washington himself The " hostile appearance of the sheet, however, deceived the Americans aa "well as their enemies, and about half a dozen Greenwich men re- " solved that the press should be stopped; they stole into the City, de- "stroyed the press, and bagged the type, which they brought off with "them from the very midst of a watchful enemy. Messrs. Andrew and " Peter Mead were the principal men of the expedition. It is said that " they only of the company were able to carry the bags of type from the "printing-office to the street and throw them across the backs of their '' horses.

After the type was brought to Greenwich, it was totally de- " stroyed, except enough to print each of the company's names, which "the veterans kept for a long time in memory of their exploit." One might readily suppose this latest tidbit of what has currency as history, was written in China or Timbuctoo ; but the curious reader may find it in an elegant and e.\pensive History of Fairfield C<mnly, Connecticut, compiled under the supervision of D. Hamilton Hurd, and published by J. W Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, it 18.S1. It occupies a portion of page 378 of that handsomely printed volume, and afl'urds a tine example of the character of what is written, concerning New Euglundei-s and their character and doings, when the jjen of the writer and the patronage of tbe publisher are within that pretentious portion of the Union.