He briefly represented Annapolis County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1786.
[3] He was born in what is now the United States, the son of the Reverend Samuel Seabury and Elizabeth Powell.
His half-brother Samuel was the first bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States.
He was elected to the 6th General Assembly of Nova Scotia in 1785, but the seat was immediately contested and declared invalid on Dec. 8,1785, three days into the session.
[4] [5] In 1790, he was named a judge in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Annapolis County.