Person:David Sewell (4)

From History of Clinton Co, Ohio, by C. L. SEWELL: David Sewell was born in Loudonn County, Va., in 1746. In the year 1768, he was married to Mary Tullis; he raised a family of three children Hannah, John and Aaron. Hannah, the oldest child, was married to Judge Peter Burr, for several years Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Clinton County, July 10, 1790. Aaron Sewell, better known to many of our people as Judge Sewell, and an emigrant to that part of the Northwest Territory known as the State of Ohio, was born in Loudoun County, Va., on the 27th day of August, 1774. His father was David Sewell, and his mother's name Mary, maiden name, Mary Tullis. He had one brother and one sister older than he was. John Sewell, the brother, died a resident of Clinton County in 1822; his sister, Hannah Burr, wife of Judge Peter Burr, for several years Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Clinton County, also died in Clinton County, in 1816. David Sewell, father of Judge Sewell, early in 1798, became the owner of one of Archibald Campbell's survey, No. 2,250, on the Little East Fork, in what is now Clinton County, containing 1,200 acres, more or less, and made arrangements