In 1753 he took orders in London, and returning to his native country, was settled at New Brunswick, New Jersey. After the death of Mr. Colgan, Sir Charles Hardy, governor of New York, introduced him as clergyman of the Episcopal church at Jamaica, Long Island, where he remained from 175(3 to 17G6. Near the close of the latter year he removed to Westchester, and continued there until the commencement of hostilities. In April, 1775, a large number of loyalists assembled at White Plains, and adopted the following protest. Mr. Seabury's name is the third affixed to it; that of the llev. Luke Babcock, another Episcopalian minister, is the fourtli. " VV^e, the subscribers, freeholders and inhabitants of the county of Westchester, having assembled at the White Plains in consequence of certain advertisements, do now declare, that we meet here to declare our honest abhorrence of all unlawful congresses and committees, and that we are determined, at the liazard of our lives and properties, to support the king and constitution ; and that we acknowledge no representatives but the general assembly, to whose wisdom and integrity we submit the guardianslnp of our rights, liberties, and privileges." Mr. Seabury went into New York after the Revolution opened, and at one lime w;,s chaplain of the king's American regiment, commanded by Colonel Fanning. At the peace he settled at New London. In 1784 he went to England to obtain consecration as a bishop, but objections arising there, he was consecrated in Scotland on the 14th of November of that year by three non-juring bishop?. For the remainder of his life he presided over the diocese of Connecticut and Rhode Island. His duties were discliarged in an exemplary manner. He died February 25ih, 1790, aged sixty-eight years. Two volumes of his sermons were published before his decease, and one volume in 1798.