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Sewall, David – Sewall, Stephen

Sewall, David

lawyer, jurist, was born Oct. 7, 1735, in York, Maine. He was representative for York in 1776; chosen a member of the council of Massachusetts; and was appointed in 1777 a justice of the superior court. From 1789 till 1818 he was United States judge for the district of Maine. He died Oct. 22, 1825, in York, Maine.

Sewall, John Smith

clergyman, educator, was born March 20, 1830, in congregational church at Wenham, Mass., Newcastle, Maine. He was pastor of the till 1867, when he became professor of rhetoric and English literature at Bowdoin. He exchanged this chair in 1875 for that of homiletics at Bangor Theological seminary.

Sewall, Joseph Addison

college president, was born in 1830, in Maine.

In 1877 he was elected the first president of the university of Colorado, serving until 1888 til 1888.

Sewall, Jotham

clergyman, was born Jan. 1, 1760, in York, Maine. His ministry extended over a period of fifty years, and in this time he preached four and a half times on an average every week. His field was confined chiefly to Maine and parts of New Hampshire and Rhode Island. He died Oct. 3, 1850, in Chesterville, Maine.

Sewall, Rufus King

lawyer, author, was born Jan. 21, 1814, in Edgecomb, Maine. He is a lawyer of Wiscasset, Maine, and the author of Lectures on the Holy Spirit; Sketches of St. Augustine; Ancient Dominions of Maine.

Sewall, Samuel

lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 28, 1652, in England.

He was a noted jurist of Boston, best remembered for his connection with the Salem witchcraft trials. He was the author of The Selling of Joseph; Answer to Queries Respecting America; Accomplishment of Prophecies; Memorial Relating to the Kennebec Indians; and Description of the New Heaven. He died Jan. 1, 1730, in Boston, Mass.

Sewall, Samuel

civil engineer, inventor, was born in 1724, in York, Maine. He is said to have been the first to drive piles as a foundation for bridges, introducing this device at York in 1761. In 1786 he erected the Charlestown bridge on this plan. He died July 28, 1815, in York, Maine.

Sewall, Samuel

clergyman, author, was born June 1, 1785, in Marblehead, Mass . He was pastor of the congregational church at Burlington, Mass., from 1814 till his death. He was fond of antiquarian studies, and left a History of Woburn, Mass., from the Grant of Its Territory to Charlestown in 1640 to 1860.

He died Feb. 18, 1868, in Burlington, Mass.

Sewall, Samuel

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Dec. 11, 1757, in Boston, Mass. In 1796 he was elected from Massachusetts a representative in congress, serving until 1800. In 1800 he was placed upon the bench of the supreme court of Massachusetts, and in 1813 was appointed chief justice of that court. He died June 8, 1814, in Wiscasset, Maine.

Sewall, Stephen

lawyer, jurist, was born Dec. 18, 1704, in Salem, Mass.

He was appointed a judge of the supreme court of Massachusetts. In 1752 he was made chief justice, and he served in that capacity, and also as a member of the council, till the close of his life. He died Sept. 10, 1760. author, was born April 4, 1734, in York,

Sewall, Stephen

scholar, educator, Maine. He was a Hebrew scholar, professor of Hebrew at Harvard college in 1765-85, among whose writings are, Hebrew Grammar; Scripture Account of the Shechinah; and Carmina Sacra quæ Latine Græceque condidit America. He died July 23, 1804, in Boston, Mass.