James Rivington

James Rivington
Born1724 (1724)
London, England
Died (aged 77)
New York, New York
OccupationsSpy, newspaper publisher
Known forLikely participation in the Culper Spy Ring
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James Rivington (1724 – July 4, 1802) was an English-born American journalist who published a Loyalist newspaper in the American colonies called Rivington's Gazette. He was driven out of New York by the Sons of Liberty, but was likely a member of the American Culper Spy Ring, which provided the Continental Army with military intelligence from British-occupied New York.

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