James Rivington
BIRTH
1724
London, England
DEATH
July 4, 1802
New York City, New York
FAMILY
FATHER:
Charles Rivington
(1688-1742)
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Rivington, James
(1724-1802)
James Rivington was a New York printer whose Royal Gazette became one of British-occupied New York's leading Loyalist newspapers. Later accounts also associate him with supplying intelligence to George Washington, though the extent of that activity remains debated.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Bull's Head Tavern Marker | 20 Elizabeth St, New York, NY 10013 | MARKER | ||
Black Horse Inn Marker | 5111 Canal St, New York, NY 10002 | MARKER |
DIED:
New York City, New York
Jul 4, 1802
The exact date and place of James Rivington’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies James Rivington with work or public activity as a spy, printer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. James Rivington died on Jul 4, 1802 in New York City, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.