He reached Westchester, on his return, on the second of January, 1776 but his private affairs were very much disturbed; ^ his School, on which he largely depended for the payment of his debts and for the more comfortable support of his family, was broken up ; ■* his present means were very limited -- the expense of his month's confinement, in the hands of the banditti, had amounted to the very large sum of ten pounds sterling^ -- his papers were so much scattered

date until the second T.hursday of the following May, see the same Historical Collections^ etc., 200.

1 Rev. Samuel Seubury to the Secretary of the Venerable Society, " New " York, December 29, 1776."

2 Rev. Samuel Seabury to the Venerable Society, " Wkstciiester, Janu- "ary 13, 1776 ; " Beardsley's Life and Correspondence of lit. Rev. Samuel, Seabury, D.D., 43.

3 Rev. Samuel Seabury to the Venerable Society, " Westchester, Janu- " ary 13, 1776.''

* Beardsley'e Life and Correspondence of Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury, D.D., 48.

6 Rev. Samuel Seabury to the Venerable Society, " Westchester, January " 13, 1776."

that he was unable to discharge his official duties with propriety and accuracy ; * he and his family were subjected to constant annoyances and insults ; ' nis house was occupied, soon after, by a Company of Cavalry, who consumed or destroyed all the products of his Glebe, on which, to a considerable extent, his family was made dependent ; " he was thus made entirely dependent for support on his small stipend as a Missionary of the Venerable Society ; and, finally, like his friend and neighbor, Isaac Wilkins, he was compelled to seek shelter and safety in flight '--when a favorable opportunity was afforded, he gathered such of his effects as could be conveniently carried, and, with his wife and six children, he fled, first across the Sound, to Long Island and, subsequently, to the City of New York.^"