SfXT. III.] United States of America. QS5 



Mr. East Apthorp^, and Dr. Henry Caner, of 

 Massachusetts ; Dr. Samuel Johnson, Dr, Sa- 

 muel Seabury -j-, and Mr. Beach J, of Connecticut; 

 William Livingston §, esquire, and Dr. Myles 



tioiis on the Fall and its Consequences, 1785 ; and a work en- 

 titled The Salvation of all Men, 1785. 



* The rev. East Apthorp was for a considerable time the rec- 

 tor of an episcopal church in Cambridge, near Boston. He left 

 America in the course of the revolutionary war. Beside what 

 he published in his own country, he has written at least one 

 work since he resided in England, on the deistical controversy, 

 addressed to Mr. Gibbon, in 1778, which is an honourable testi- 

 mony both of his learning and talents. 



f The rev. Samuel Seabury was rector of an episcopal church 

 at New London, in Connecticut, where he held a station among 

 his clerical brethren of high respectability and influence. He 

 was afterward bishop of the episcopal church in that state ; and 

 was the first of this order that ever resided in America. Beside 

 smaller tracts, he published, during his life, two volumes oi Ser- 

 mons, which show him to have possessed a vigorous and well-in- 

 formed mind. A supplementary volume of semions, selected 

 from his manuscripts, was published in 1798, two or three years 

 after his death. See Additional Notes (M). 



X The rev. Mr. Beach was an episcopal clergyman, and was 

 considered, by those who espoused the cause in support of which 

 he embarked, as a respectable advocate of his church. 



§ William Livingston, LL.D., Avas a member of a family 

 which emigrated from North Britain, and which has, for more 

 than a century, held a respectable and important station in 

 New York. He was born about the year 1723, and graduated 

 at Yale college in 1741. After filling some important offices 

 in New York, his native state, he removed into New Jersey, 

 and was the first governor of that state after the declaration 

 of independence. He continued to fill this office with great 

 honour to himself, and with great usefulness to the state, till the 

 time of his death in 1790. Mr. Livingston wrote a variety of 

 publications beside those which related to the question of an 

 American episcopate, all of which indicate genius, taste, and 

 learning. He was possessed of uncommon strength, discrimi- 



