He called himself a Merchant, in the City of New York ; but he had been more conspicuous in shipping Merchandise and Provisions to the eastward, clandestinely, when such shipments to the eastward were interdicted, than in any more legitimate business. He had been a member of the recently dissolved Provincial Congress, during a portion of its existence ; but, in entire harmony with his earlier proclivities, when there were threatenings of danger from the Home Government, he had abandoned the

1 A letter from John Case, from the County of Suffolk, on Long Island, "to the Printer of the New-York Gazetteer,'' and published in Riuiugton's New-York Gazetteer, No. 511, New-York, Thursdaj', January 12, 1775, narrated the method in which those who wore not inclined to favor the theories and practises of the revolutionary faction were invoigled into (hat Tavern, and, there, subjected to the teachings of Alexander McDougal, Isaac Searu, and others of that faction ; and a description of the insults and outrages inflicted on those who were inclined to object to the subject matters of those teachings, by those ale-house "patriots," especially by Isaac Sears, may also be seen, iu the same letter.

The attempted reply to John Case, in which Isaac Scars subsequently attempted to raise new issues instead of meeting old ones, served only to establish, more clearly, the truthfulness of Case's original statement ; aud those who shall incline to pursue the inquiry, may find it in Holt's New-York Journal, No. 1674, New- York, Thursday, February 2, 1775.