On the contrary, it is evident that his captors had become tired, since they found that an able and courageous prisoner, such as Samuel Seabury was, was not likely to be useful to either the general cause of the Rebellion or to those who held him ; and, therefore, without any official action which has been recorded, either by the official pens or by the traditional stylus of history -- just as similar political prisoners, within the memory of living men, have been informally and unceremoniously ejected from places in which they had been lawlessly confined by warrant of no other mittimus than the naked ipse dixit of reckless and law-defying political demagogues possessing a revolutionary power to issue such orders -- the guards which had barred the outlet from his improvised prison were removed ; the doors were opened; and he was permitted to depart, without hindrance, and to return, without molestation, to his home and family.

He reached Westchester, on his return, on the second of January, 1776 ; ' but his private affairs were very much disturbed; 3 his School, on which he largely depended for the payment of his debts and for the more comfortable support of his family, was broken up ; 4 his present means were very limited -- the expense of his month's confinement, in the hands of the banditti, had amounted to the very large sum of ten pounds sterling 6 -- his papers were so much scattered

date until the second Thursday of the following May, see the Bame Historical Collections, etc., 200.