Samuel Sewall, Chief Justice of Massachusetts

1652 - 1730  (77 years)

• Name	Samuel Sewall  [1]
  Suffix	Chief Justice of Massachusetts
  Born	28 Mar 1652	Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Baptised	4 May 1652	Stoke Church, Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England   [2]
  Died	1 Jan 1730  [2]
  Buried	Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I26863	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Feb 2020

  
  

  Father	Henry Sewall,   b. Bef 25 Jun 1615,   d. 16 May 1700, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age > 84 years)
  Mother	Jane Dummer,   b. Abt 1627, England ,   d. 13 Jan 1701, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Married	25 Mar 1646	Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Notes	The ceremony was officiated by Richard Saltonstall.
  Family ID	F16046	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Wikipedia: "Samuel Sewall was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph (1700), which criticized slavery. He served for many years as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the province's high court." Also historically important are the detailed diaries he kept from 1674 to 1729, recording "the people he met, what he read, what he thought, and the births, marriages, and deaths of family, friends, and acquaintances for virtually his entire adult life. In addition to the diaries, letter books, notations in 'interleaved almanacs,' and the journal of his trip to England in 1688 and 1689 all survive." [The Descendants of Henry Sewall, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S3679] Joseph Lemuel Chester, "The Family of Dummer." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 35:254, 35:321, 1881. [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.