Informs them about an expedition Sears led from Connecticut to disarm Tories in New York and "to deprive that Traitor to his Country James Rivington of the means of circulating [poisen] in print,. . . which we . . . effected by taking away his Type"; complains about the numerous Tories in New York and on Long Island and suggests ways of suppressing them; informs them that the tea-sellers in New York have begun to sell their tea but that Sears has not; expresses surprise that the command of vessels fitting out in Philadelphia was given to Capt. [Esek] Hopkins "for I judged that department was for me."; American Philosophical Society
