He was seized by the insurgents, his papers were examined, and because he answered affirmatively to the question, 'Whether he considered himself bound by his oath of allegiance to the king,' he was deemed an enemy to the liberties of America, and ordered to be kept in custody."'* After four month's confinement his health gave way and he was then dismissed with a written order to remove within the lines of the king's army. '• He got home," (says Mr. Seabury,) " with difficulty, in a raging fever and delirious, and there died, extremely regretted."* Indeed, I know not a more excellent man ; and I fear his loss, especially in that mission, will scarcely be made up.*'

His wife was Grace Isaacs, a cousin of Judge Isaacs of New Plaven. His children were Cortlandt, Frederick, the father of Mrs. "W. L. Monis, of Wave Hill, Yonkers, and Henrietta, who married a Mr. Richard Saltonstal of New York.

This parish suffered greatly during the war of the Revolution. The church was used at intervals by both armies as an hospital ; and its pulpit was occupied by ministers of different denominations, who made some strong efforts to retain possession.

At the close of the war, May ist, the State of New York passed an act vesting the church with two acres of land, and the glebe, in the corporation of the Episcopal church, Yonkers.

This was confirmed by another act of the Legislature, passed April 3, 1792, wherein it is specified: "That all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand of the people of the State of New York, in and to the said church, and two acres of land, and in and to the said parsonage or glebe, shall be, and hereby are granted to, and vested in the corporation of the Episcopal church in the town of Yonkers, in the County of Westchester and State of New York, and their successors forever, for the use of the said corporation."