History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 131
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] spirit than the spirit of loyalty. To give the appearance of dignity to these curious and very orderly protestors, the author has been very mindful to annex every man's addition to his name, upon a. pre-sumption perhaps that it would derive weight from the title of Mayor, Esquire, Captain, Lieutenant, Judge, etc. But it is not easy to con-ceive why the publisher should be less civil to the clergy than to the gentry or commonalty. Samuel Seabury ami Luke Babcock cer-tainly ought not to have been sent into the world floating on a news-paper in that plain way. The one is the Rev. Mr. Samuel Seabury, rector of the united parishes of East and West Chester, and one of the missionaries for propagating the Gospel, and not politicks, in foreign parts, etc., etc.; the other is the Rev. Mr.