In his Memorial to the General Assembly of 0>niieclicut, Seabury expressly stated that he was arrested by a detachment ; that the main body of the party was subsequently joined, by the detachment ; and that all, then, returned to East Chester.

3 J/emorifi! «/ Samuel Seabury lo the General Assembli/ of Connecticut, December 20, 1775.

See, also, The Cunnecticul Journal, No. 424, [New H.ive.n,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775 ; Jones's Hi^tttry of Sew YurTc durimj the Revolutionary War, i., 66, G7 ; etc.

* Memorial of Samuel Seabury to the General Asfembly of Connecticut, December 20, 1775.

& Jones's History of Keic York during the Rerolutionnri/ War, i., 67.

private papers and scattered them ; and carried away a small sum of money, which was in the drawer of his desk. Of course, the Boarding-school for Boys, . which he had organized and establi-hed with so much labor,* for the better support of his family, was broken down ; and the pupils, five of whom were from Jamaica and one from Montreal, the parents of four others being in Europe, besides " others from " New York and the country," were necessarily scattered, inflicting an irreparable injury to him and to his large and dependent family.'

When these seizures had been accomplished and after what had been stolen had been sufliciently secured, another detachment from the main body of the banditti was sent back to Horseneck [ West Greenwich, Connecticut,^ as an escort and guard of the three prisoners and of the booty ; ^ while the main body, itself, numberingseventy-five mounted men, moved forward, from East Chester, toward the City of New York.'