Seabury

Seabury, SAMUEL (1729-96), first Bishop of Connecticut, was the son of a clergyman of that state, and graduated at Yale College in 1748. He was ordained in London in 1753, but, as he was prevented from officiating for a time, he supported himself by practising medicine. He made many enemies among the American party by the pamphlets he wrote from the Bntish standpoint. He was an excellent preacher, however, and in 1777 was made a DD. of Oxford, and in 1783 obtained the see of Connecticut.