3S6 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



God and honor the King, delivered before the provincial or loyalist 

 troops, was printed during the war by direction of Governor Tryon. a 

 The following is inscribed on his tomb-stone, at New London : 



IIEKE LIETH TnE BODY OF 



SAMUEL SEABURT, D.D., 



BISHOP OF CONNECTICUT AND linODE ISLAND, 



Who departed this transitory scene, 



February 25th, 1796, 



In the 6Sth of his age, and the eleventh of his 



EPISCOPAL CONSECRATION. 



Ingenious without Pride, 



Learned without Pedantry, 



Good without severity, 



He was duly qualified to discharge 



The duties of the Christian and the Bishop. 



In the pulpit he enforced religion, 



In his conduct he exemplified it. 



The poor he assisted with his charity, 



The ignorant he blessed with his instruction. 



The friend of men, he ever designed them good, 



The enemy of vice, he ever opposed it. 



Christian ! do'st thou aspire to happiness ? 



Seabury has shown the way that leads to it. 6 



Charles Seabury the youngest son of the Bishop, was born in West- 

 chester, in May, 1770, and succeeded his father in the church at New 

 London. In 1796, he preached awhile at Jamaica, and died rector of 

 Caroline church, Setauket. His first wife was Anne, the daughter of 

 Roswell Saltonstall, of New London, by whom he had issue. His son, 

 the late Samuel Seabury, D.D., was the founder and first Rector of the 

 Church of the Annunciation, in the city of New York, c and was suc- 

 ceeded by his son the Rev. William J. Seabury. 



By an act of the Legislature, passed 18th of April, 1785, it was or- 

 dered : — " That the district formerly called and known by the style of 

 the Borough and Town of Westchester, shall henceforth be called and 

 known by the name of the Town of Westchester. " Up to this date, 

 the church appears to have been governed by the charter of 1762. On 

 the 6th day of April, in the year 1784, the Legislature of the State of 

 New York, passed an aet entitled : " An act to enable all religious de- 



a Bablne's History of the American Loyalists. 



b The above inscription w.is written by Kev. John Bowdcn. S.T.D., formerly Professor of 

 Mora! Philosophy in Columbia College, N. Y. 

 c Updike's History of Xarragamwttt church. 



