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Samuel Sewall (/ ˈ sj uː əl /; March 28, 1652 – January 1, 1730) was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, [1] for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph (1700), which criticized slavery. [2]
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. [6]
The Sewall–Ware House was a historic house at 100 S. Main Street in Sherborn, Massachusetts. The house stood on land once belonging to Massachusetts judge Samuel Sewall (best known for his participation in the Salem witch trials). The house may have been constructed by Sewall's instructions for a tenant farmer.
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Samuel Edmund Sewall (1799–1888) was an American lawyer, abolitionist, and suffragist. He co-founded the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society , lent his legal expertise to the Underground Railroad , and served a term in the Massachusetts Senate as a Free-Soiler .
John Hathorne (August 1641 – May 10, 1717) was a merchant and magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Salem, Massachusetts.He is best known for his early and vocal role as one of the leading judges in the Salem witch trials.
The diarist Samuel Sewall first records him coming to Boston in 1681. [6] He was a minister in Salem Village beginning in 1684 when several church members (including Peter Cloyce, husband of Sarah Cloyce a woman who would be among the first accused of witchcraft in 1692) were sent by the church to get a boat and help him move his belongings up ...
Samuel Gerrish (c. 1680 – c. 1741) was an American bookseller and publisher based in Boston during the 18th century. [1] He kept a shop "near the brick meeting house in Cornhill ," [ 2 ] and published works by Thomas Prince and others.