With its escort of local sympathizers, its progress was not obstructed; and, on Thursday, the twenty-third of November, at noon, when it reached the Square, it " drew up, in close "order, before the . printing-office of the infamous " James Rivington," * those who had already assembled there, evidently for the purpose of covering it, if not for the purpose of doing more than that, should any opposition to its purposes be manifested by any one welcoming it, as their auxiliaries and confederates.
It is said that, while the main body of the banditti remained in position, in front of the Bookstore and Printing-office of the proscribed Englishman, "a ■ " small detachment " entered the latter, and gathered " the principal part of his types," which was placed in sacks prepared for the purpose, destroying those
1 Minutes of the General Committee of the CUy and County of New York, Thursday, November 23, 1775 ; Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 66 ; Governor Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22, On Board the Ship Dutchess of Gordon New York Harbour, 6 th Dec 1775 ; etc.
2 Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 66. 8 Manual of Che Corporation of the City of New-York for 1855, 511.
4 " The main body, consisting of 75, then proceeded to New- York, 11 which they entered at noon-day on horseback, with bayonets fixed, and "in the greatest regularity, went down the main street, and drew up in " close order before the printing -office of the infamous James Riving- " ton." (The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Haven,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775.)