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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 (December 11, 1757 – June 8, 1814) was an American lawyer and congressman. He was born in Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. Biography
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]
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 .
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 ...
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.
Bryant Edwin Sewall, 57, formerly of Little Elm, Texas, received a 23-year prison sentence, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado. A federal ...
Sewall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: ... Samuel Sewall (1652–1730), American judge in Massachusetts; Samuel Sewall (congressman) (1757 ...