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County, disarming the loyalists, and seizing the persons of 

 several of the most prominent Tories. The expedition started 

 with sixteen men, but gradually increased to over eighty. 

 On the twenty-second of November, an advanced guard 

 entered the borough-town of Westchester and seized Mayor 

 Underhill and Rector Samuel Seabury. The rector had ren- 

 dered himself obnoxious to the patriots by his written articles 

 against the colonists, by his fulminations from the pulpit, and 

 by his having signed the White Plains Protest. Captain 

 Lathrop, with his two prisoners, then started over the road 

 to Kingsbridge, but met the main body under Sears coming 

 over the Boston Road. They all returned to Eastchester, 

 where the main body of the raiders had already seized Jona- 

 than Fowler, Judge of the Superior Court of Common Pleas. 

 The three prisoners were sent under escort to Horseneck 

 (Greenwich) in Connecticut, while the main body of about 

 seventy-five horsemen resumed their march over the Boston 

 Road into the city of New York, where, at noon on the twenty- 

 third, they destroyed the printing establishment of James 

 Rivington, the royalist printer and publisher of the obnoxious 

 Gazetteer. The expedition then returned to Connecticut, carry- 

 ing with them most of the printing type, which was afterwards 

 melted up into bullets. The prisoners were not released until 

 the following January; and when the reverend doctor returned 

 to Westchester he found his school dispersed and his affairs 

 in confusion. Like his friend Wilkins, he left the town, going 

 first to Long Island, and later to New York City, where he 

 remained as chaplain in the British army until the end of the 

 war. 



Mention has already been made of the cannon taken to 

 Kingsbridge upon the news of Lexington. These cannon, 

 numbering probably two hundred and fifty all told, were of all 



