Person:Samuel Sewall (3)
Samuel Sewall
b.11 Dec 1757 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.8 Jun 1814 Wiscasset, Lincoln, Maine, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 18 May 1749
  1. Joseph Sewall1751 -
  2. Sarah Sewall1756 -
  3. Samuel Sewall1757 - 1814
  4. Dorothy Sewall1758 - 1825
  5. Katharine Sewall1760 -
  6. Joseph Sewall1762 -
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m. 8 Dec 1781
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Facts and Events
Name Samuel Sewall
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 11 Dec 1757 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 8 Dec 1781 Salem, Essex, Massachusettsto Abigail Devereux
Death[1] 8 Jun 1814 Wiscasset, Lincoln, Maine, United States
Reference Number? Q1712522?


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Samuel Sewall (December 11, 1757 – June 8, 1814) was an American lawyer and congressman. He was born in Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

After attending Dummer Charity School (now The Governor's Academy), Sewall graduated from Harvard College (A.B. 1776, A.M. 1779, honorary LL.D. 1808) and set up practice as a lawyer in Marblehead. He served as a member of the state legislature in 1783, and from 1788-96.

He represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1796 to 1800, and from 1800 to 1814 served as a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, becoming chief justice in 1814. He died at Wiscasset in Massachusetts' District of Maine while holding a court there. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1801.

American novelist Louisa May Alcott was Sewall's great niece. His younger sister, Dorothy, was Alcott's great-grandmother. In 1781, he married Abigail Devereux; they had a family of at least six sons and two daughters. Sewall's great-grandfather Samuel Sewall was a judge at the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts, and subsequently Chief Justice of Massachusetts.[1]

Sewall was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society on June 1, 1814. Sewall died 7 days later on June 8, apparently before he could formally respond, so his disposition regarding membership is unknown.

In 1814 Fort Sewall in Marblehead, Massachusetts was renamed for him.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Samuel Sewall (congressman), 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.292.

    Samuel Son of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth his Wife, born 11 December 1757.

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