Person:Samuel May (7)

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Samuel Joseph May
b.12 Sep 1797 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
 
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m. 28 Dec 1784
  1. Charles May1785 - 1786
  2. Catharine May1786 -
  3. Charles May1788 -
  4. Louisa May1789 - 1791
  5. Eliza Sewall May1790 - 1791
  6. Louisa May1792 - 1828
  7. Samuel Joseph May1794 - 1795
  8. Edward May1795 - 1802
  9. Samuel Joseph May1796 - 1797
  10. Samuel Joseph May1797 -
  11. Elizabeth Sewall May1798 -
  12. Abigail May1800 - 1877
  13. Louisa Caroline Greenwood May, (adopted)1810 -
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Name[1] Samuel Joseph May
Gender Male
Birth[2] 12 Sep 1797 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q7411879?


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Samuel Joseph May (September 12, 1797 – July 1, 1871) was an American reformer during the nineteenth century who championed education, women's rights, and abolition of slavery. May argued on behalf of all working people that the rights of humanity were more important than the rights of property, and advocated for minimum wages and legal limitations on the amassing of wealth.

He was born on September 12, 1797, in an upper-class Boston area. May was the son of Colonel Joseph May, a merchant, and Dorothy Sewell, who was descended from or connected to many of the leading families of colonial Massachusetts, including the Quincys and the Hancocks. His sister was Abby May Alcott, mother of novelist Louisa May Alcott. In 1825, he married Lucretia Flagge Coffin with whom he had five children. Author Eve LaPlante, who wrote several books about his sister Abby May Alcott and a book about Sewall ancestor Judge Samuel Sewall, is one of his direct descendants.

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References
  1. ↑ Samuel Joseph May, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ Record Commissioners of Boston. Boston Births from A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1800: Twenty-fourth report of the Commission. (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1894)
    v.24 p.345.

    Samuel Joseph Son of Joseph May and Dorothy his Wife, born 12 September 1797.

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