374 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



i"7o." rt He probably died in 1775, for his name appears among the 

 deceased clergy, in " a list of persons licensed to the plantations," end- 

 ing Dec. 28, 1777. b 



A vacancy of nearly a year occurred before the Rev. Samuel Seabury, 

 A. M.. was appointed to the mission. " In 1776," says Dr. Hawkins, " Mr. 

 Seabury intimated to the Society his wish to accept the offer of the mis- 

 sion of Westchester, which was made by him to the church-wardens and' 

 vestrymen ; and the Society consenting to his proposal, he removed 

 thither at the end of the year ij66." c 



Mr. Seabury was the oldest son of the Rev. Samuel Seabury, a de- 

 scendant of John Seaberry. of Boston, Mass., whose family were origi- 

 nally seated at Porlake, in Devonshire, England. Samuel, the son of 

 John Seaberry, and Grace, his wife, was born 10th Dec. 1640. Samuel 

 Seabury, M. D , was a noted surgeon at Duxbury, Mass., in the 17th 

 century. His son, John Seabury, was born in 1673, and died at Hemp- 

 stead, L. I., Dec, 17, 1759. His son, Samuel, was born in 1706, and 

 was graduated at Harvard University, in 1724. He settled at Groton, 

 Conn., as a Congregational minister, and is said to have married Abi- 

 gail Mumford. From intercourse with Dr. McSparran, of Narragansett, 

 Mr. Seabury became an Episcopal clergyman, and was appointed by the 

 Society, in 1728, the first missionary of St. James's church, then at New 

 London. His wife died in 1731. In 1733, he married Elizabeth Pow- 

 ell, (she died Feb. 6, 1799, aged 87), the daughter of Adam Powell, a 

 merchant of Newport, R. I., and grand-daughter of Gabriel Bernon. In 

 1742 he removed to Hempstead, on L. I., where he died June 15, 1764. 

 The following is the inscription on his tombstone : — 



"Here lyeth interred the hody of the 



REV. SAMUEL SEABURY, A.M., 



Rector of the Parish of Hempstead, 



who with the greatest diligence and most indefatigaWe labour, for 13 years 



at New London, and 21 years in this Parish, having discharged 



every duty of his sacred function, 



Died the loth of June, A.D. 1764, a;t 58. 



a "Old Churches and Families in Virginia," by the Rt. Rev. William Mead, Bishop of Virginia. 

 The Rev. II. Walcoxon in a letter to ihe author, dated Smithfield, Isle of Wight County, Va., 

 Jan'y. 7, 1S52, says: "The oldest resident, Of my acquaintance, in the county thinks, he has 

 heard of Mr. Milner, but can give no certain or reliable Information about him. The records 

 of the parish, for many years back, have been destroyed or lost. St. Luke's church, Isle of 

 Wight Co., Va., was built m 1632, and is undoubtedly the oldest building now standing in 

 America erected by English settlers. The walls and tower are nearly perfect."— Circular by 

 k>'.\ .las. U. Crayhlll, Suffolk, Va. 

 b CoU. of Prot. Epis. Hist. Society. 1S51. 



c Hist Notices of the Miss, of the Church of Eng. In the North American Colonies, by 

 Ernest Hawkins, B. D. 



