Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution
" What wild confusion, rout and hobble, you " Made with his farmer, Don A. W." (Trumbull's Origin of McFingal, 31, 32 ;) and within six months after Trumbull's publication, Samuel Seabury, in that portion of his Memorial to the General Assembly of Connecticut which is now under notice, added his very clear, very precise, and very unequivocal testimony, on the same interesting question. With these two independent pieces of evidence before him, the reader may easily ascertain with how much of accuracy that early judgment was formed.
We are not unacquainted, also, with a paper, entitled Tlie Westchester Farmer, written by D. Williams, and published in Tlie Magazine of American History, viii., 117 -- February, 1882. It contains what purports to have been an unsigned draft of a, Memorial supposed to have been addressed, or intended to have been addressed, by Samuel Seabury, several years after the occurrences now under consideration, to the Commissioners fcr adjusting the losses of the Loyal Refugees, in which draft of a Memorial he claimed, if the paper is not something else than what it purports to have been, to have been the sole author of tbe "A. W. "Farmer" tracts, as well as of various other tracts and publications. But we are constrained to say that, whether the paper is what it purports to have been or not, and whether it was copied and delivered to the' Commissioners or not, of both of which we have grave doubts, there are evidences within itself of its entire untrustworthiness, in its recital of known facts ; that we do not believe, therefore, that it was written by Samuel Seabury, carefully and deliberately, if he really wrote it ; and that we need more evidence than we have yet Been, that he was capable of deliberately and understand ingly telling or writing unqualified falsehoods, for any purpose, either while he was in New Haven, in 1776-6, or in Lond n, after he had received his Doctor's degree from Oxford University, several years afterwards.