Records of Samuel Sewall on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Samuel Sewall and the Sewall Genealogy

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Some Famous People called Samuel Sewall

Samuel Sewall (congressman)

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.

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.

Source: Samuel Sewall (congressman), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

Samuel Edmund Sewall

Samuel Edmund Sewall (1799-1888) was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and suffragist. He was one of the founders of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1831, lent his legal expertise to the Underground Railroad, and served a term in the Massachusetts Senate as a Free-Soiler.

Sewall was involved in several notable cases involving refugees from slavery, including George Latimer, Shadrach Minkins, Thomas Sims, Eliza Small, and Polly Ann Bates. He also worked to advance women's legal rights in Massachusetts.

He was a descendant of the Puritan judge Samuel Sewall.

Source: Samuel Edmund Sewall, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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