Farmer." He also states that on the 19th of November, 1775, an armed force of one hundred horsemen came from Connecticut to his house, and, not finding him at home, beat his children to compel them to tell where their father was, " which, not succeeding, they searched the neighborhood and took him from his school, and, with much abusive language, carried him in great triumph to New Haven, seventy miles distant, where he was paraded through most of the streets, and their success celebrated by firing cannon, &c." At this time, according to his own statement, Dr. Seabury " lived at Westchester, in the then province of New Y'ork, and was, though not wealthy, yet in easy circumstances, and supported a large family -- viz., a wife and si.\:

children -- comfortably and decently ; that his income was at least £200 S^erl. p'' a"", arising from his Parish, Glebe & from a grammar School, in which he had more than 20 young Gentlemen, when the Rebellion began." The "Free Thoughts " of Seabury, we are told, excited the bitterest feeling. It was reprinted in London, in 1775, " for Richardson & Urquhart, at the Royal Exchange." Mr. Trumbull says that " when coj)ies of these pamphlets fell into the hands of the Whigs, they were disposed of in such a manner as most emphatically to express detestation of the anonymous authors and their sentiments. Sometimes they were publicly burned, with imposing formality ; sometimes decorated with tar and feathers [from the Turkey-buzzard, as ' the fittest emblem of the author's odiousncss '], and nailed to the whipping-post." Rev. Jonathan Boucher, writing of Seabury's authorship of the pamphlets, states that, " being attributed to another gentleman, he alone derived any advantage from them, for to him the Brit-