Samuel Seabury
(1729-1796)
Beardsley,
Eben Edwards. Life and Correspondence of the Right Reverend
Samuel Seabury, D.D. First Bishop of Connecticut. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1882. Beardsley was an Episcopal minister and
historian of Connecticut episcopacy. He had access to some family
papers and talked with Seabury's grandson. Index.
Norton,
John Nicholas. The Life of the Right Reverend Samuel Seabury.
New York: General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, 1859.
Seabury,
William Jones, Memoir of Bishop Seabury. New York: E. S.
Gorham, 1908. Not terribly useful, given Steiner's work, below.
The author is Seabury's great grandson, and this work is based
on Beardsley's book and manuscripts given the author by his rather.
No apparatus; fair index.
Steiner,
Bruce E. Samuel Seabury, 1729-1796: A Study in the High Church
Tradition. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1972. Steiner sees
Seabury's influence on the Protestant Episcopal Church as "far
greater than that of any of his contemporaries in the episcopate."
(p. 6) This is a full-scale, scholarly study, with nearly 100
pages of citations, a hefty bibliography, and a much better than
ordinary index. A definitive, exemplary work. Clifford Shipton
says of it: "The research is vast, and every obvious source
is covered . . . ." New England Quarterly 46(June,
1973):300.
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