He had long been displeased with the editorial conduct of Rivington's New York Gazetteer, and he now rode with his remaining men, a troop of about seventy-five, down to the city, "which they entered at noon-day, with bayonets fixed and the greatest regularity, went down the main streets, and drew up in close order before the printing office of the infamous James Rivington.,,1 They completely wrecked the establishment, demolishing the presses and taking away the types; and, having so successfully completed this final part of their mission, remounted, struck up the tune of " Yankee Doodle," and amid the cheers of the populace returned whence they came. Some incidents of Sears's raid suggest that it was not exclusively an enterprise of patriotic enthusiasm. Certain acts of indecorum were committed, to characterize them by no harsher term. At Seabury's house they broke open his desk, examined and scattered his >r four dollars in money, and quite papers, appropriated some thr Fowler's offensively threatened and insulted his daughter. From residencethey carried away a beaver hat, a silver-mounted horsewhip, and two silver s] us, besides the sword, gun, and pistols which belonged to his official dignity as colonel in the militia. They moreover visited the homes of various Tories along the route, where supposably they did not uniformly resist taking such articles as were to their liking. Our nineteenth century Tory historian, Dawson, in his account of this raid, comments with uncontrolled and terrible excitement upon every phase of it, describing Sears as a cowardly, plundering ruffian of the dirtiest water, and his troopers as diabolical banditti, and insists that they returned to Connecticut laden with spoils. Of this there is no evidence whatever. Abundant evidence docs exist that they brought back with them a large and curious collection of arms from Westchester Loyalists of notorious repute.