James Rivington

Rivington is the boisterous proprietor of Rivington's Corner, as well as the publisher of The Royal Gazette, a rabidly pro-British tabloid. An ingratiating backslapper, Rivington is the ultimate insider, a man who often knows as much about what the British are doing as any officer. Rivington doesn't keep anything to himself, which makes him the perfect mark for Townsend's spying. Townsend even uses Rivington's newspaper as a signal, placing a classified ad to signal the Ringthat he has intelligence to pass.