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.'

Where that large body of horsemen spent the fol-

* The following advertisement, copied from Sivington's Xew-York Gazetteer, No. 97, New-York, Thursday, February 23, 1775, will clearly indicate the high character of that Colonial Westchester Boarding-school tor Boys, probably the prototype of those similar institutions, in more recent days, which have made Westchester-county so widely known, in the world of Education :

"To the Public, "SAMUEL SEABURY, M.A.

" Rector of the Parish of Westchester,

~l r.VTH opened a School in that Town, and offers hie Service to -* -- " prepare young Gentlemen for the College, the Compting- " House, or any genteel Business for which Parents or Guardians may "design them. Children who know their Letters will be admitted to " his School, and taught to read English with propriety, and to write it "with a fair Hand, and with gnimmatical accuracy. They will be in- "structedin Arithmetic, if required, in its utmost extent; and in the " Elements of Geometry ; in Trigonometry, Navigation, Surveying, etc.