the separation of the colonies from the mother country, there was a considerable loss . . . The Episcopal Clergy in 1800 numbered 17; the same as immediately before the revolution. The parishes had again multiplied, but so many families had been broken up by the war, or had withdrawn after the declaration of peace in 1783, that the communicants could not have numbered more than 1,500.
    "At the adoption of the present constitution in 1818, when the clergy began to report to the convention of the diocese in detail, the communicants were 3,400."
    Thus the establishment of an Episcopal parish in Seymour just fourteen years after the close of the American Revolution was part of a general trend of gains for the Episcopal churches, due mainly to a relaxation of the hostile attitudes of the wartime.
    Three Revolutionary veterans were active in the formation of this Seymour parish. One of the men was from Seymour, and the others are from areas now in the towns of Oxford and Beacon Falls, but at the time of the establishment of the parish, all the land was part of Derby.

THE WARRANT FOR THE FIRST MEETING OF TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH

    According to William C. Sharpe's History of Seymour, the beginning of Trinity Church was as follows:
    "At the request of Theophilos Miles, Jonathan Miles, and Benjamin Davis, a warrant was issued by Levi Tomlinson, a Justice of the Peace for New Haven County, directed to Benjamin Davis, an indifferent person, requesting him to give notice to all the inhabitants professing the religion of the Protestant Episcopal Church, residing within certain prescribed limits, to meet at the house of   Dr. Samuel Sanford on the 20th day of Feb., 1797; then and there to form an Episcopal Ecclesiastical Society.
    "The warrant was dated Feb. 12th, 1797, and was served on thirty-nine persons ...
    The warrant served upon those in the area who were Episcopalians, was given to three American Revolution veterans, among others; they were John Griffin, Moses Riggs and Nathan Mansfield.
    Although Sharpe does not outline the area which was included