Farmer " tracts, so peculiarly offensive to the patriotic sentiment of the times; and however that might be he was undeniably a Tory of the most intractable and odious type. It was remembered with great indignation against him that he had refused to open the church at Eastchester on the day appointed for the continental fast. Finally, he was regarded with deep private resentment by Captain Sears, who suspected him of complicity in a scheme to seize him (Sears) while lie was passing through Westchester County on a former occasion, and carry him on board a man-of-war. He was held in confinement for more than a month, at his own financial charge, his prayers to the courts for relief being utterly ignored. At length he submitted an able memorial to tin' Connecticut legislature, in which he dwelt upon the flagrant illegality of the whole proceedings in his case, and that body presently ordered ins release. Returning to Westchester, he found his affairs there in a sorry plight. The private school upon which he had mainly depended for support was completely broken up. He was under a heavy burden of debt, his influence in the community was at an end, and he and his family were obliged to submit to many discourtesies ami insults. During the military campaign of 1776 he was obliged to give accommodation in his house to a company of

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1775,

JULY

9, 1776

Revolutionary cavalry, who, says Dawson, consumed or destroyed all the products of his glebe. The poor Tory clergyman finally, in desperation, fled with his wife and six children to the British lines. Like Isaac Wilkins, also of the Borough of Westchester, Seabury continued a British sympathizer throughout the war; but after the Revolution he returned to America and became bishop of the (Episcopalian) diocese of Connecticut.