The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ecticut militialed by Capt. I. Sears, his press brok-en up, and his types carried off, andmelted down for bullets. He there-upon fled to England, received theappointment of printer
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . ecticut militialed by Capt. I. Sears, his press brok-en up, and his types carried off, andmelted down for bullets. He there-upon fled to England, received theappointment of printer to the king-in New York, returned with a newpress and types after the British oc-cupation of the city, and gave hispaper a new start as RivingtonsNew York Loyal Gazette, a titlechanged in December, 1777, toRoyal Gazette. Its characterfor fairness and accuracy had notimproved, and the whigs called itthe Lying Gazette. In 1781, de-spairing of British success andmindful of his interests, he became a spy, and sup-plied the patriot army with secret information. Onthe evacuation of the city by the British he re-mained, and again changed the name of his paper,this time to the New York Gazette and Uni-versal Advertiser. It suspended publication in1783, for the victorious party, who had detestedRivington as an enemy, liked him no better as aconvert. He fell into neglect and poverty, and diedin New York July 4, 228 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPiEDIA CIiAFLIN, Horace Brigham, dry-goods mer-chant, was bom at ^Milford, Mass., Dec. 18, was educated at the village schools, and at anearly age became a clerk for his father, John Claf-lin, wlio the largest landowner of the vicinity,and kept a general country store in his native 1831, before he had arrived at the age of twenty,he joined his brother, Aaron Clafliu, and his broth-er-in-law, Samuel Daniels, in buying out his fathersbusiness, the capital of the new firm aggregating$3,000, and the share of the two brothers being g
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