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divinity, he went to London, where he was ordained a dea- 

 con, Dec. 21, 1753, by the bishop of Lincoln, at the request 

 of Dr. Thomas Sherlock, bishop of London ; and a few days 

 afterward, priest, by the bishop of Carlisle. Beside remaining 

 in Scotland about one year, he spent two or three months at 

 the university of Oxford. 



He Avas first settled in the ministry at BrunsAvick, in New 

 Jersey. Here he remained about three years. From Bruns- 

 wick, in the beginning of the year 1757, he removed to Ja- 

 irs^ca, on Long Island, where he resided until December 

 1766 ; thence he removed to Westchester, in the state of New 

 York. In this place he remained until the commencement 

 of the revolutionary war, when he went into the city of New 

 York, and after the termination of this controversy settled in 

 Connecticut. In 1777 he received the degree of doctor of 

 divinity from the university of Oxford. 



Dr. Seabury went to England in I784-, to obtain conse- 

 cration as bishop of the episcopal church in Connecticut. 

 Meeting, in South Britain, with some obstruction to the ac- 

 complishment of his wishes (an obstruction, however, en- 

 tirely unconnected with personal considerations), he went to 

 Scotland, where, in the month of November in that year, 

 he was consecrated bishop, by Messrs, Robert Kilgour, Ar- 

 thur Petrie, and John Skinner, nonjuring bishops of Scotland. 



He continued for a number of years after this period to re- 

 side at New London, and to discharge, in an exemplary man- 

 ner, the duties of his office. He was warmly attached to the 

 episcopal church, and generally esteemed one of her most 

 zealous and able defenders in America. — He died In 1796. 



Note (N),page 236. — Among those who signalised them- 

 selves as writers in favour of the introduction and support of 

 an American episcopate, the name of Mr. John Vardill ought 

 not to have been omitted. Mr. Vardill was born and edu- 

 cated in the city of New York. In the year 1762 he was ad- 

 mitted into King's college, as it was then called ; and having 



