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Chief Justice Stephen Sewall
b.14 Dec 1702 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
d.10 Sep 1760 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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m. 13 Jun 1682
  1. Stephen Sewall1684 - 1684
  2. Stephen Sewall1685 - 1685/86
  3. Margaret Sewall1687 - 1736
  4. Jane Sewall1688 - 1688
  5. Major Samuel Sewall1689 - 1757
  6. Susannah Sewall1691 - Aft 1753
  7. Jonathan Sewall1692/93 - 1731
  8. Jane Sewall1694 - 1747
  9. Mehitabel Sewall1695 - Aft 1753
  10. Elizabeth Sewall1696 - 1697
  11. Hannah Sewall1697 - 1697
  12. Mary Sewall1698 - 1699
  13. Mitchell Sewall1699 - 1748
  14. Hannah Sewall1700 - 1700
  15. Henry Sewall1701 - 1721
  16. Chief Justice Stephen Sewall1702 - 1760
  17. Benjamin Sewall1708 - Bef 1741/42
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Name[1][2] Chief Justice Stephen Sewall
Gender Male
Birth[1] 14 Dec 1702 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[1] 20 Dec 1702 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesFirst Church
Degree[1] 1721 A.B. Harvard College.
Death[1] 10 Sep 1760 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Probate[1] 30 Sep 1760 Administration to (nephew) Jonathan Sewall; estate insolvent.
Reference Number? Q7610499?


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Stephen Sewall (December 14, 1702 – September 10, 1760) was a judge in colonial Massachusetts. Born in Salem, Massachusetts, he was the son of Stephen Sewall, the clerk of court at the Salem witchcraft trials, and a nephew of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall, who presided at the witchcraft trials. He was the uncle of lawyer Jonathan Sewall and of the poet, lawyer and patriot, Jonathan Mitchell Sewall of Portsmouth, NH.

He attended Harvard University, graduating in 1721. Although never formally trained as a lawyer or admitted to the bar, he was appointed first as an associate justice, and then as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the highest court in the colony. He also served on the Massachusetts Governor's Council, which was then the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court. He was generally respected by both friends (the "court party") and foes (the "popular party") of royal government.

Sewall's death in Boston in 1760 was followed by controversy. James Otis, Jr. believed that his father, James Otis, Sr., had been promised the office of chief justice, but Governor Francis Bernard appointed Crown supporter Thomas Hutchinson instead, creating a political rift that would have important implications in the development of the American Revolution. While Sewall had expressed doubts about the legality of writs of assistance, which were controversial general search warrants, Hutchinson authorized them—over the objections of Otis—in the famous "writs of assistance case" of 1761.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 13. Stephen3 Sewall, in Graves, Eben W. The Descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656): of Manchester and Coventry, England and Newbury and Rowley, Massachusetts. (Boston, Mass.: Newbury Street Press, 2007)
    103.

    "Stephen Sewall, b. (Salem) 14 Dec. 1702; bp. (First Church, Salem, 20 Dec. 1702; d. unm. 10 Sept. 1760. Harvard College, AB 1721. He was the librarian of the college,1726-28, judge of the Superior Court, 1739; chief justice, 1752, Member of the Council from 1752 until his death.

  2. ↑ Stephen Sewall, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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