At the time of the Golden Hill conflict between the citizens and the soldiers, in 1770, he was in the thick of the fray, and, finding himself confronted at one stage of it by a fierce grenadier with a bayonet, with great presence of mind and precision of aim hurled a rani's horn at the unfortunate man, which struck him full in the forehead and put him liors de combat. Wherever there was an affray Sears was sure to be, always rough and ready and always victorious. As time sped on to the Revolution, he sought to give to his country's cause the benefit also of his co-operation in council, but received not overmuch encouragement in that line from the aristocratic yHp iMcwmcU wnty --

and coldly intellectual Jays, Duanes, Livingstons, and Morrises. Yet as the leading man of the democratic masses he was not to be ignored, and he not only was connected with the New York committee from its organization, but sat in the provincial conJJV gress of 1775 as a delegate from the LIBERTY PLACARD. city. Resigning his membership in that body, he went to New Haven, Conn., where, continuing to observe the march of events in New York, he was particularly impressed with the unsuitable spirit of so many citizens of Westchester County, and concluded that a little vigorous correction in that quarter would be entirely apropos. With sixteen mounted and armed men, described by a New Haven newspaper of the day as " respectable citizens of this town," Sears set out on the 20th of November for the avowed purpose of an expeditionto " East and West Chester, in the Province of New Yrork, disarm the principal Tories there and secure the persons of Parsonto Seabury, Judge Fowler, and Lord Underbill." On the way they were joined by Captains Richards, Silleck, and Mead, with about eighty men.