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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Sewall, Samuel 1652-1730 (search)
Sewall, Samuel 1652-1730 Jurist; born in Bishopstoke, England, March 28, 1652; graduated at Harvard College in 1671; studied divinity; preached a while; came into the possession of great wealth by marrying the daughter of a Boston goldsmith; became an assistant in 1684, and was annually chosen a member of the council from 1692 until 1725. He was a judge from 1712 until 1718, when he became chief-justice of Massachusetts, resigning in 1728, in consequence of age and infirmities. Judge Sewall shared in the general belief in witches and witchcraft, and concurred in the condemnation of many of the accused persons, but afterwards publicly acknowledged his error. He seems to have been the first outspoken abolitionist in the United States, having written a tract against slavery, in which he gave it as his opinion that there would be no progress in gospelling until slavery should be abolished. He died in Boston, Mass., Jan. 1, 1730. See witchcraft, Salem.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature, A Glossary of Important Contributors to American Literature (search)
od (1824). Then came The Traveller (1825); Hope Leslie, or early times in Massachusetts (2 vols., 1827); The Linwoods, or sixty years since in America (2 vols., 1835); Sketches and tales (1835); The poor rich man and the rich poor man (1836); Live and let live (1837); Letters from abroad (1841); Morals of manners (1846); Facts and fancies (1848); and Married or single? （1857). Died near Roxbury, Mass., July 31, 1867. Sewall, Samuel He was born in Bishop-Stoke or Basingstoke, Eng., March 28, 1652, and came to America in 1661. Taking his first degree from Harvard in 1671, he studied for the ministry, but after his marriage had charge of the Boston printing-press for about three years, and occupied various public offices, being a member of the court which conducted the witchcraft trials at Salem. Later he became convinced of the error of his conduct in this connection and volunteered public apology for it. His various publications are The Selling of Joseph (1700); Prospects touch