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.)

See, also, Governor Tryon to the Earl of Dartmouth, No. 22, " On Board "the Ship Dutchess op Gordon New York Harbour, 6" Dec 1775" ; Petition of the General Committee of the City and County of New York to the Provincial Congress,- (vide page VHpost;) the Provincial Congress of New York to the Governor of Connecticut, " In Provincial Congress, New- '' York, 12th Deer. 1775 ; " Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 66 ; etc.

portions which could not be taken away, and demolishing, also, his presses and other office-material. 5

It is said that three quarters of an hour were spent in that work of reckless destruction, without the slightest attempt by either the Municipal or the Colonial authorities, legal or revolutionary, to interfere, for the preservation of the peace or for the protection of the property of the citizen or for that of the freedom of the Press ; and, consequently, after its appetite for outrage had become satisfied, taking with it the type which it had not destroyed and such articles from the Bookstore as were fancied by those who entered it, 6 the banditti mounted its horses, its music striking up the tune of Yankee Doodle, and its local sympathizers in the Square and around the head of the Coffee-house Slip giving it cheers which were returned, and left the City by the same route as that on which it had entered it. 7