Samuel Seabury
BIRTH
Nov 30, 1729
Groton, Connecticut
DEATH
February 25, 1796
New London, Connecticut
FAMILY
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Seabury, Samuel
(1729-1796)
Samuel Seabury was an Anglican clergyman and prominent Loyalist writer whose pamphlets, published as A. W. Farmer, opposed the Continental Congress. After the war he became the first bishop of the American Episcopal Church.
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Charles Seabury
(1770-1844)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Trinity Church Fishkill Marker | 1200 Main St, Fishkill, NY 12524 | MARKER |
DIED:
New London, Connecticut
Feb 25, 1796
Samuel Seabury was born on Nov 30, 1729 in Groton, Connecticut. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Samuel Seabury with work or public activity as a clergyperson, writer. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Samuel Seabury died on Feb 25, 1796 in New London, Connecticut. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.