Samuel Seabury

Released
Date of birth:30. 11. 1729
Date of death:25. 02. 1796
Age:66† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1700s
State:New York
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month 1 Day
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Samuel Seabury

Biography

Samuel Seabury was an Anglican clergyman in Westchester County, New York, and prominent political organizer who published numerous writings criticizing the early American Congress. In November 1775 he was arrested at a Grammar School he ran by armed militiamen and brought to Connecticut, where he was held prisoner in New Haven for weeks without being charged with any crime. He was eventually released after petitioning the Connecticut General Assembly for his freedom. He later became the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.

Case

New Haven Jail
Charges: Loyalist agitation.
Arrested: Nov 22, 1775
Incarcerated: Nov 22, 1775
Released: Dec 23, 1775
Sentence: Roughly six weeks’ imprisonment in New Haven, Connecticut (1775). Verdict as recorded: Never charged — released after petitioning the Connecticut General Assembly Charges as recorded: Loyalist agitation — his “Letters of a Westchester Farmer” pamphlets — for which armed Patriots seized him in 1775.
Convicted: No
Institution State: Connecticut

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