[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Reverends Samuel Seabury, of Westchester; Epenetus Townsend, oi Salem; and Ephraim Avery, of Rye, the Yonkers parson was per-severing in his devotion to the British cause, and suffered accordingly. Soon after the removal of the lord of the manor, Mr. Babcock was apprehended by a Revolutionary committee, his papers were ex-amined, and the interrogatory was propounded to him, -'Whether he considered himself bound by his oath of allegiance to the King? " He replied affirmatively, and thereupon was sent to New Haven under guard, where he languished until February, 1777. During his confinement his health declined. Being released on parole, he re-turned to the Yonkers parsonage, and presently died there, leaving a youthful widow, who continued to reside in the parsonage, where Miss Williams, a sister of Mrs. Frederick Philipse, bore her com-pany. Now, these two ladies of the parsonage were either not very fero-cious Loyalist partisans, or else held their political principles quite subordinate to the gentle inclinations of their hearts. The widow Babcock was wooed by a gallant American officer of the Westchester lines, Colonel Cist. She at least did not discourage this devotion, and it has even been surmised that she reciprocated it; and the com-panion of her loneliness, Miss Williams, apparently regarded the romantic affair with a kindly interest.