It was evidently determined, therefore, that James Rivington should be silenced; and that his only means for inflicting pain on the persons of those who favored the Rebellion should be taken from him.

There was, also, at that time, no one, in the Colony of New York, who possessed greater intellectual and executive abilities combined with superior scholastic attainments, than Samuel Seabury, a Missionary of the Society tor the Propagatiim of the CJospel in Foreign Parts, ordinarily known as "The Venerable "Society," Rector of the Established Church in the

8 "This I know, a successful resistance is a 'Kkvomtion,' not a ' Ke- " ' BKi.i.ioN.' • Rebki.i.ion,' iuilpeil, u|ipo«iison the back of a Hying en- " univ : but ' Revoi.i thin ' tlaniee on the breastplate of the victorious i " warrior."-- (John Wilkes, iii Ihe Unuse <>f Ommfiu, February 6, 1775.)

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Borough Town of Westchester, and Master of a Boarding-school for Boys, in the same Town. He was the friend and Pastor of Isaac Wilkius, the able leader of the conservative majority of the Opposition, in the General Assembly of the Colony; and the Manor of Morrisania was within the boundaries of his Parish ; and the Morrises, brothers-in-law of Isaac Wilkins, but masquerading as leaders in theRebellion, were, nominally, if not in reality, among his parishioners. He was learned, as was well-known : he was fearless in the declarations and support of his wellconsidered opinions, as was known to his neighbors and friends: that his convictions led him to support the conservative portion of the Opposition, led by his j friend, Isaac " Wilkins, is more than probable : that the same convictions led him to oppose, within the circle of his influence and consistently with his min- | isterial duties, the doings of the revolutionary faction of the Opposition, among whom his neighbors and parishioners, the Morrises, were capering, was no secret.