Henry Sewall

Bef 1615 - 1700  (> 84 years)

• Name	Henry Sewall
  Birth	Bef 25 Jun 1615  [1]
  Baptism	25 Jun 1615	Manchester Cathedral, Lancashire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 May 1700	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Burial	First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I26859	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2023

  
  

  Father	Henry Sewall,   b. Bef 8 Apr 1576   d. Mar 1656, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 79 years)
  Mother	Anne Hunt   d. Bef 1 Jul 1615
  Family ID	F16049	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Dummer,   b. Abt 1627, England d. 13 Jan 1701, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 74 years)
  Marriage	25 Mar 1646	Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Notes	The ceremony was officiated by Richard Saltonstall.
  Children	1. John Sewall,   b. 10 Oct 1654, North Baddesley, Hampshire, England d. 9 Aug 1699, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 44 years)   2. Samuel Sewall, Chief Justice of Massachusetts,   b. 28 Mar 1652, Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England d. 1 Jan 1730 (Age 77 years)   3. Hannah Sewall,   b. 10 May 1649, Tunworth, Hampshire, England d. 11 Nov 1699, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F16046	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2023

  
  

• Notes

  He emigrated to New England on the Elizabeth & Dorcas in 1634, an ill-starred crossing during which sixty passengers died. He returned to England in 1646 with his Dummer in-laws. The in-laws never returned to New England; he returned to New England briefly in 1650 or so, then permanently in 1659. He brought his wife and children over in 1661. Sometime while in England in the 1650s, he became a minister at North Baddesley, Hampshire. He appears to have been on friendly terms with Richard Cromwell, who briefly became Lord Protector between his father's death and the Restoration. Henry Sewall (1615-1700) = Jane Dummer (1627-1701) Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) = Hannah Hull (1658-1717) Joseph Sewell (1688-1769) = Elizabeth Walley (d. 1756) Samuel Sewell (1715-1771) = Elizabeth Quincy (1729-1770) Dorothy Sewell (1758-1825) = Joseph May (1760-1841) Abigail May (1800-1877) = Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) Making Louisa May Alcott a fifth cousin, six times removed, to LDN.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3675] The Descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Manchester and Coventry, England, and Newbury and Rowley, Massachusetts by Eben W. Graves. Boston: Newbury Street Press, 2007. [S3679] Joseph Lemuel Chester, "The Family of Dummer." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 35:254, 35:321, 1881., date only. [S6886] Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience by Richard Francis. London: Harper Perennial, 2006., year only.