It was afterwards, however, known to have aided the Amer- "icans much, and was under the control of Washington himself. The "hostile appearance of the sheet, however, deceived the Americans as "well as their enemies, and about half a dozen Greenwich men resolved that the press should be stopped; they stole into the City, destroyed the press, and bagged the type, which they brought off with "them from the very midst of a watchful enemy. Messrs. Andrew and " Peter Mead were the principal men of the expedition. It ie said that "they only of the company were able to carry the bags of type from the " printing-office to the street and throw them across the backs of their ■' horses. After the type was brought to Greenwich, it was totally destroyed, except enough toprint each of the company's names, which "the veterans kept for a long time in memory of their exploit." One might readily suppoBe this latest tidbit of what has currency as history was written in China or Timbuctoo ; but the curious reader may find it in an elegant and expensive History of Fairfield County, Connecticut, compiled under the supervision of D. Hamilton Hurd, and published by J. W Lewis & Co., Philadelphia, in 1881. It occupies a portion of page 378 of that handsomely printed volume, and affords a fine example of the character of what is written, concerning New Englanders and their character and doings, when the pen of the writer and the patronage of the publisher are within that pretentious portion of the Union.