The friend of men, he ever designed their good ; The enemy of vice, he ever opposed it. Christian ! dost thou aspire to happiness T Seabury has shown the way that leads to it.

"Charles Seabury, the youngest son of the bishop, was born in Westchester, in May, 1770, and succeeded his father in the church at New London. In 1795, he preaciied a while at Jamaica. His first wife was Anne, the daughter of Rosvvell Saltonstall of New London, by whom he had issue. His son, Samuel Seabury, D. D., is the present rector of the church of the Annunciation, in the city of New York, and editor of the Churchman, a religious newspaper."'*

During the American Revolution religious services appear to have been suspended in this church.

On the 6th day of April, A. D. 17S4, the legislature of the state of New York, passed a law entitled " An act to enable all religious denominations in this state to appoint trustees, who

» Sabine's Hist of American Loyalists.

«> History of the Narragansett Church, by Wilkins Updike, page 144.

should be a body corporate, for the purpose of taking care of the temporalities of their respective congregations, and for other purposes therein mentioned." Under the provisions of this act St. Peter's Church was incorporated on the 19th of April, 1788, Lewis Graham, Josiah Browne, Thomas Hunt, Israel Underbill, John Bartow, Philip I. Livingston and Samuel Bayard, trustees. a- Upon the reorganization of the church, the Rev. Theodosius Bartow was called to the rectorship. For the successors of Mr. Bartow, see list of rectors. The present edifice was erected in 1794, on the site of the old church, and consecrated upon the 9th of December, 1795, by the Right Rev. Samuel Provoost, bishop of the diocese. It is a neat wooden structure surmounted by a cupola.