Clergyman; born in Withywood,
Jamaica,
W. I., Dec. 17, 1742; graduated at Columbia College in 1760; became a member of the New York colonial legislature in 1772.
He supported
England prior to the
Revolutionary War, and owing to some political pamphlets which he wrote was forced by the Sons of Liberty to flee from the country in 1775.
At the conclusion of the war he settled on
Long Island, and afterwards studied theology, and was ordained in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1801.
He died in
Westchester, N. Y., Feb. 5, 1830.
