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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]
Samuel Sewall's diary mentions Lawson in the Boston area for the last time on December 27, 1692, in Watertown, alongside William Stoughton and others. In 1693, Lawson became a pastor at the Second Church in Scituate, which had been tied to Plymouth and governed by the Plymouth General Court until the previous year.
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.
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
Empty-Calorie Foods and Drinks: The Bottom Line. Unfortunately, empty calories are everywhere in the food system, and consuming a lot of them can work against your health goals.
Judge Samuel Sewall recorded in his diary the deaths of his friends and neighbors like one Madam Checkly on 18 October. [9] Thanksgiving sermons were also affected by the outbreak, and on 26 October most congregations held a single sermon at 11 in the morning out of fear of smallpox spreading during gatherings.
The U.S. will no longer allow the import of seafood linked to the bycatch of marine mammals. Each year, over 650,000 marine mammals, including seals, whales, and dolphins, are killed by ...