Born in Groton, Conn., Samuel Seabury was the son of the Reverend Samuel Seabury Sr. His Father was a pioneer of New England Anglicanism who followed the example of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Jr.,broke away from the Congregationalists and pursued Anglican ordination. He graduated from Yale in 1744 and received his B.A in 1748. He married Abigail Mumford and went abroad in 1784 to obtain consecration as an Anglican Priest. On December 23, 1753, Samuel Seabury was ordained a …showed first 75 words of 554 total…

…showed last 75 words of 554 total…force Seabury to admit he wrote the “Westchester Farmer”, he neither denied it nor admitted it. Eventually he was released, and this was the final step in pushing him against the patriots. When the war he predicted broke out, he housed his family in the British- held city of New York. He stayed there until the war was over ; then he took a job as a preacher and lived an uneventful life until his death.