SCUDDER
SEABURY
Butterflies (1899); Catalogue of the Described
Orthoptera of the United States and Canada
(1900); Adephagous and Clavicoru Coleox)tera
from the Tertiary Deposits at Florissant, Cvlo.
(1900); Index to the Orthoptera of Xorth
America described in the Eighteenth and Nine-
teenth Centuries (1902.)
SCUDDER, Vida Dutton, educator, was born in Madura, India, Dec. 15, 1861; daugliter of the Rev. David Coit (1835-1862) and Harriet Louisa (Dutton) Scudder; grand-daughter of Charles and Sarah (Coit) Scudder, and of George and Mary (Pomeroy) Dutton of Boston, Mass. She was graduated from Smith college, Northampton, Mass., A.B., 1884; continued her education in Oxford, England, and in Pai'is, France, and be- came connected with the formation of college settlements. She was an instructor in English literature at Wellesley college, Mass., 1887-92, and in 1892 became associate professor of Eng- lish literature. She edited: '* Selected Poems " from George MacDonald (1887); Macaulay's "Lord Clive," (1889); "Introduction to the AVritings of John Ruskin " (1890), and Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound" (1892); and is the author of: Hoio the Rain Sprites icere Freed (1883); The Life of the Sjnrit in the 3Iodern Eng- lish Poets (1895); The Witness of DenmZ (1896); Social Ideas in English Letters (1898); Introduc- tion to the Study of English Literature (1901); A Listener in Babel; Being a Series of Imaginary Conversations (1903).
SEABROOK, Benjamin Whitemarsh, gover- nor of South Carolina, was born in 1795. He was graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1812; became a planter at Edisto Island, S. C, and served as a state senator, and was governor of the state, 1848-50. He was president of the State Agricultural so- ciety, and is the author of: Essay on the Management of Slaves (1834) and a Memoir of the Origin, Ctdtivation and Uses of Cotton (1844). He died in St. Luke's parish, S. C, April 16, 1856.
SEABURY, Samuel, first bisliop of Connecti- cut, and 1st of the succession in the American episcopate, was born in Groton, Conn., Nov. 30, 1729; son of the Rev. Samuel (1706-1764) and Abigail (Mumford) Seabury; grandson of John and Elizabeth (Alden) Seabuiy and of Thomas and Hannah (Remington) Mumford. and a de- scendant of John Seabury, who emigrated from Porlock, Somersetshire, England, to the Barba- does, and from there in 1639 to Boston, Massa- chusetts Bay Colony. Samuel Seabury (1706- 1764) after being ordained in England, organized the parish of St. James, New London, Conn., of
which he was rector, 1732-43; and resided at
Hempstead, N.Y., as rector of St. George's
church, 1743-64. It was amid this atmosphere of
church influence that the son spent his boyhood
and received his preparation for college and for
the priesthood. He was graduated from Yale,
A.B., and fourth in the class of 1748 (A.M. 1751),
and served as catechist and pursued a course in
theology vmder the direction of his father, 1748-
51. He was then sent to England to receive
orders, and before ordination studied medicine in
the University of Edinburgh. He was ordered
deacon by the Bishop of Lincoln (Dr. John
Thomas) Deo. 21, 1753, and advanced to the
priesthood by the Bishop of Carlisle (Dr. Richard
Osbaldiston) two days later. On his return to
America, with the license of Slierlock, Bishop of
London, to officiate in New Jerse}', he was elected
rector of Christ Church, in New Brunswick in
that province, and served this parish, 1754-57.
While at New Brunswick, he was married, Oct.
12, 1756, to Mary, daughter of Edward Hicks of
New York. He was then called to Grace church,
Jamaica, L.I., N.Y., where he was rector. 1757-
66, and in 1766 was inducted into the rectorship
of St. Peter's, West Chester, which he held for
about ten years. In November, 1775, he was
taken by a band of armed men under Sears to
New Haven, where he was imprisoned for six
weeks, being finally released on requisition of the
governor of New York as a citizen taken from his
province without process of law. Returning to
his parish he found hostilities commenced, and
being unable to continue his duties he closed the
church and took refuge in New York where he
in part supported his family by the practice of
medicine, serving also through the war as chap-
lain of the King's American Regiment, under
commission of Sir Henry Clinton (Feb. 14, 1778).
Upon the recognition of the Independence of the
American States he was elected by the clergy of
English ordination in Connecticut (AVoodbury,
March 25, 1783), to be the bishop of the church in
that state, and sailed for England with credentials
as an applicant for consecration by the English
bishops, with instructions that failing in this
quest he should apply to the bishops of the Scot-
tish church, whose line of succession back of the
time of Ciiarles II. was identical with that of the
English episcopate, but who had lost their civil
status by refusal to swear allegiance to the suc-
cessors of James II. The English bishops could
not legally confer consecration without the oath
of allegiance to the king, which could not be
taken by one who was to exercise his office in a
foreign state. Various other difficulties were sug-
gested, but this was the main point. The bishops
could not dispense with the oatli; the king
and privy council would not: and, in the vain
