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

Where that large body of horsemen spent the fol-

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

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

" Rector of the Parish of Westchester,

^ TTATH opened a School in that Town, and offers his Service to -L-L " 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 Haud, and with grammatical accuracy. They will be in- " structed in Arithmetic, if required, in its utmost extent ; and in the " Elements of Geometry ; in Trigonometry, Navigation, Surveying, etc.