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SEABURY, SAMUEL (1729-1796)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 531 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEABURY, See also:SAMUEL (1729-1796) , See also:American See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:bishop, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:November 1729, in See also:Ledyard, Groton, See also:Connecticut. His See also:father, Samuel Seabury (1706-1764), originally a Congregationalist See also:minister in Groton, was ordained See also:deacon and See also:priest in the See also:Church of See also:England in 1731, and was a See also:rector in New See also:London, See also:Conn., from 1732 to 1743, and in Hempstead, See also:Long See also:Island, from 1743 until his See also:death. The son graduated at Yale in 1748; studied See also:theology with his father; studied See also:medicine at See also:Edinburgh in 1752-1753; was ordained deacon by the bishop of See also:Lincoln and priest by the bishop of See also:Carlisle in 1753; was missionary in New See also:Brunswick, New See also:Jersey, in 1754-1757, and was rector in See also:Jamaica, New See also:York, in 1757-1766, and of St. See also:Peter's, Westchester, New York, in 1766-1775. He was one of the signers of the See also:White Plains protest of See also:April 1775 against " all unlawful congresses and committees," in many other ways proved himself a devoted loyalist, and wrote the See also:Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the See also:Continental See also:Congress (1774) by A. W. See also:Farmer " (i.e. a Westchester farmer}, which was followed by a second " Farmer's See also:Letter," The Congress Canvassed (1774), answered by See also:Alexander See also:Hamilton in A Full Vindication of the See also:Measures of the Congress, from the Calumnies of their Enemies. A third " Farmer's Letter " replied to Hamilton's View of the Controversy between See also:Great See also:Britain and her Colonies, in a broader and abler treatment than in the previous See also:pamphlets. To this third pamphlet Hamilton replied with The Farmer Refuted (1775). These three " Farmer's Letters "—a See also:fourth was advertised but apparently was neverpublished—were forcible presentations of the See also:pro-See also:British claim, written in a See also:plain, hard-headed See also:style; their authorship was long in question, but it is certain that Seabury claimed them in England in 1783 when he was seeking episcopal See also:consecration. At the same See also:time he claimed the authorship of a letter, not signed by the Westchester farmer, which under the See also:title An Alarm to the Legislature of the See also:Province of New York (1775) discussed the See also:power of this the only legal See also:political See also:body in the See also:colony. He was arrested in November 1775 by a See also:mob of lawless Whigs, and was kept in See also:prison in Connecticut for six See also:weeks; his parochial labours were broken up, and after some time in Long Island he took See also:refuge in New York See also:City, where he was appointed in 1778 See also:chaplain to the See also:king's American See also:regiment.

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March 1783 he was chosen their bishop by ten episcopal clergymen of Connecticut, See also:meeting in See also:Woodbury; as he could not take the British See also:oath of See also:allegiance, Seabury was shut out from consecration by the See also:English bishops, and he was consecrated by Scotch bishops at See also:Aberdeen on the 14th of November 1784. He returned to Connecticut in 1785 and made New Haven his See also:home, becoming rector of St See also:James's Church there. The validity of his consecration was at first questioned by many, but was recognized by the See also:General See also:Convention of his church in 1789, In 1790 he took See also:charge of the See also:diocese of Rhode Island also. In 1792 he joined with Bishops See also:William White and Samuel Provoost, who had received English consecration in 1787, and James See also:Madison (1749-1812), who had received English consecration in 1790, in the consecration of Bishop See also:Thomas J. Claggett of See also:Maryland in 1792, thus uniting the Scotch and the English successions. He died in New London on the 25th of See also:February 1796. He was a great organizer and a strict churchman: it is noteworthy that after his consecration he used the See also:signature " Samuel Bp. Connect." Seabury's " Farmer's Letters" See also:rank him as the most vigorous American loyalist controversialist and as one of the greatest masters of style of his See also:period. His son See also:Charles (1770-1844) was rector in various Long Island churches; and Charles's son Samuel (18o1-1872), who graduated at See also:Columbia in 1823, was rector of the Church of the See also:Annunciation in New York in 1838-1868, and from 1862 See also:professor of Biblical learning and the See also:Interpretation of Scriptures in the General Theological See also:Seminary. William See also:Jones Seabury (b. 1837), son of the last named, was rector of the Church of the Annunciation from 1868 to 1898, professor of ecclesiastical polity and See also:law in the General Theological Seminary from 1873, and published a See also:Manual for Choristers (1878), Lectures on Apostolic See also:Succession (1893) and An Introduction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Polity (1894). See E.

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Edwards See also:Beardsley, See also:Life and See also:Correspondence of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Seabury (See also:Boston, 1881).

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It is my understanding that Seabury did not return directly to Conn, but came first to Saint John New Brunswick, where the Loyalists had fled, or as you would call them, the Royalists, and preached in the church they established in their new city, which was the forerunner of Trinity Church, which still exists in the city. I am looking for a diary entry of some sort to confirm this belief, but of course, there is no such thing in the city in which I live, just this story that he was here for several months. Well, if there is anything you can point me to that I can access, I would appreciate it and then we can add this information to his story. I do walking tours of the church, many Americans come, and they are fascinated with the Royal Coat of Arms from the Boston Council Chamber as a link to America. Our first few miniters came from the Eastern US too. David Goss 21 Glenwood Drive, Saint John, E2M 5P3
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