An army was sent to Long Island to disarm the inhabitants wlio were distinguished for their loyalty. Many had their property destroyed, and more were carried off prisoners. It should be observed, that members of the Church of England were the only sufferers on this occasion. The members of the Dutch Church are very numerous there, and many of them joined in opposing tlie rebellion ; yet no notice was taken of them, nor the least injury done to them. About this time, Mr. Bloomer' administered the sacrament at New tov/n, where he had but four or five male communicants, the rest having been driven

uated in 1742, at Harvard. In 1747, he was appointed, on the special recommendation of Gov. Clinton, successor to the Rev. Mr. Charlton, as catechist to the Negroes, and assistant minister of Trinity Church, N. Y., of ivhich church en the death of the Rev. Dr. Barclay in 1764, he was elected rector. His degreeof Doctor of Divinity he obtained from Oxford. On the commencement of the revolutionary troubles, he evinced strong loyalist feelings, and on the occupation of N. York by the American army, retired with his family to Brunswick, N. J., but on the return of the British forces, he succeeded in getting back to town. The fatigue to which he exposed himself on this occasion, being obliged to travel by night, brought on a severe cold, which threw him into a fever that proved fatal on the 3d March 1777. His son Sir Samuel A. died in 1822, a Lieutenant General in the British army.