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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]
Samuel Sewall's diary states, under the date of Monday, 19 September 1692: About noon at Salem, Giles Cory was pressed to death for standing mute; much pains was used with him two days, one after another, by the court and Captain Gardner of Nantucket who had been of his acquaintance, but all in vain. [20]
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 ...
Robert Calef (baptized 2 November 1648 – 13 April 1719) [1] was a cloth merchant in colonial Boston.He was the author of More Wonders of the Invisible World, a book composed throughout the mid-1690s denouncing the recent Salem witch trials of 1692–1693 and particularly examining the influential role played by Cotton Mather.
John Saffin (November 1626 – 29 July 1710) was an English-born merchant, politician, judge, and poet. He is best known for the work A Brief and Candid Answer, which was written in response to Samuel Sewall's The Selling of Joseph, [1] and for a small collection of poetry, most of which was not published until the 20th century.
Samuel Haugh (February 1, 1675 – June 9, 1717) was an early American silversmith, active in Boston. Only three of his works are known to survive: two cups and a spoon. Haugh was born in Boston to Rev. Samuel Haugh and Ann Raynsford. Upon his father's untimely death in June 1679, the diarist Samuel Sewall became his guardian.
Sewall's great-great-grandfather, Samuel Sewall, was one of the first colonial abolitionists.In The Selling of Joseph, he argued that no human being could truly be owned by another; that Africans, like whites, were "the sons and daughters of the first Adam, the brethren and sisters of the last Adam, and the offspring of God," and, as such, "they ought to be treated with a respect agreeable."
Stephen Sewall (December 14, 1702 – September 10, 1760) was a judge in colonial Massachusetts. Born in Salem, Massachusetts , he was the son of Stephen Sewall , the clerk of court at the Salem witchcraft trials , and a nephew of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall , who presided at the witchcraft trials.