12 Facts About James Rivington

James Rivington was an English-born American journalist who published a Loyalist newspaper in the American colonies called Rivington's Gazette.

James Rivington was driven out of New York by the Sons of Liberty, but was very likely a member of the American Culper Spy Ring, which provided the Continental Army with military intelligence from British-occupied New York.

James Rivington resumed his occupation in Philadelphia and the next year opened a printshop at the foot of Wall Street, New York.

James Rivington infuriated Captain Isaac Sears, the prominent patriot and Son of Liberty:.

James Rivington would appear as a leading man amongst us, without perceiving that he is enlisted under a party as a tool of the lowest order; a political cracker, sent abroad to alarm and terrify, sure to do mischief to the cause he means to support, and generally finishing his career in an explosion that often bespatters his friends.

James Rivington's son Jonx was a lieutenant in the 83rd Regiment of Foot and died in England in 1809.

James Rivington's son James was born in 1771 and was commissioned an Ensign in the 42nd or Royal Highland Regiment in 1783.

James Rivington's great-nephew was Percy James Rivington Pyne I, who emigrated from England in 1835 and became president of City National Bank in New York, a predecessor to Citigroup.

In 1775, immediately after the opening of hostilities, James Rivington's shop was burned and looted by the Sons of Liberty.

James Rivington fled to the pearl harbor and boarded the British ship Kingfisher.

James Rivington, who opened a drug shop, would have been the last New Yorker suspected of playing the part of a spy for the Continentals, but he furnished General George Washington with important information.

James Rivington's paper ceased to exist at the end of 1783, and he passed the remainder of his life in comparative poverty.