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James Rivington (ca. 1724-1802)
Ezra Ames (1768-1836); after Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828)
Oil on canvas, 1806
New-York Historical Society
Gift of Dr. Samuel C. Ellis
Rivington published the New-York Gazetteer, a pro-British newspaper which nevertheless printed Hamilton's first patriotic polemics. In November 1775 Hamilton tried, unsuccessfully, to stop a patriot mob from destroying Rivington's press.
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