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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

Great See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain and her Colonies, in a broader and abler treatment than in the previous See also:

PAMPHLETS

pamphlets . To this third pamphlet Hamilton replied with The Farmer Refuted (1775) . These three " Farmer's Letters "—a See also:

FOURTH

fourth was advertised but apparently was neverpublished—were forcible presentations of the See also:

pro-See also:

BRITISH

British claim, written in a See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

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 (Lat. consecrallo, from con and sacrare, " to make sacred ")

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 (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title An Alarm to the Legislature of the See also:

Province of New York (1775) discussed the See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of this the only legal See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

BODY

body in the See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony . He was arrested in November 1775 by a See also:

mob of lawless Whigs, and was kept in See also:

PRISON (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. prehensio, seizure)

prison in Connecticut for six See also:

WEEKS, EDWIN LORD (1849-1903)

weeks; his parochial labours were broken up, and after some time in Long Island he took See also:

REFUGE

refuge in New York See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

City, where he was appointed in 1778 See also:

CHAPLAIN

chaplain to the See also:

king's American See also:

REGIMENT (from Late Latin regimentum, rule, regere, to rule, govern, direct)

regiment .

On the 25th of See also:

March 1783 he was chosen their bishop by ten episcopal clergymen of Connecticut, See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting in See also:

Woodbury; as he could not take the British See also:

OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath of See also:

ALLEGIANCE (Mid. Eng. ligeaunce; med. Lat. ligeantia, &c.; the al- was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an allegation; the Fr. allegeance comes from the English; the word is formed from " liege," of which the derivatio

allegiance, Seabury was shut out from consecration by the See also:

ENGLISH

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 (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

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

Maryland in 1792, thus uniting the Scotch and the English successions . He died in New London on the 25th of See also:

FEBRUARY

February 1796 . He was a great organizer and a strict churchman: it is noteworthy that after his consecration he used the See also:

SIGNATURE (through Fr. from Lat. signature, signare, to sign, signum, mark, token, sign)

signature " Samuel Bp . Connect." Seabury's " Farmer's Letters" See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

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

Columbia in 1823, was rector of the Church of the See also:

ANNUNCIATION

Annunciation in New York in 1838-1868, and from 1862 See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of Biblical learning and the See also:

INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)

Interpretation of Scriptures in the General Theological See also:

SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

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

Manual for Choristers (1878), Lectures on Apostolic See also:

SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

Succession (1893) and An Introduction to the Study of Ecclesiastical Polity (1894) . See E .

Additional information and Comments

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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