In hia Memorial to the General Assembly of Connecticut, 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 ail, then, returned to East Chester.

8 Memorial of Samuel Seabury to the General Assembly of Connecticut, December 20. 1775.

See, also, The Connecticut Journal, No. 424, [New Haven,] Wednesday, November 29, 1775 ; Jones's History of New York during Hie Revolutionary War, i., 66, 67 ; etc.

4 Memorial of Samuel Seabury to the General Assembly of Connecticut, December 20, 1775.

6 Jones's History tf New York during the llevolulionary 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 established with so much labor, 6 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. 7

When these seizures had been accomplished and after what had been stolen had been sufficiently 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 ; 8 while the main body, itself, numbering seventy-five mounted men, moved forward, from East Chester, toward the City of New York. 9