Quotes About Rivington

After Seabury rebutted "A Full Vindication," Hamilton struck back with "The Farmer Refuted," an eighty-page tour de force that Rivington brought out on February 23, 1775.

By September 1774, Sears retaliated with scathing letters to Rivington. "I believe you to be either an ignorant impudent pretender to what you do not understand," he wrote, "or a base servile tool, ready to do the dirty work of any knave who will purchase you.

When the sparks of revolution became the full-fledged flames of war in 1775, however, Rivington's shop was looted and burned by the Sons of Liberty, with some of his presses and typefaces being melted down for ammunition. He moved his family back to England for their own safety, then returned to New York in 1777, where he opened his businesses near Townsend's shop. While