Samuel Sewall (congressman)

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Samuel Sewall (b. December 11, 1757, Boston, Massachusetts – June 8, 1814 Wiscasset, Massachusetts (now Maine)) was an American lawyer.

He graduated from Harvard College (AB 1776, AM 1779, honorary LLD 1808), and set up practice as a lawyer in Marblehead. He served as a member of the state legislature in 1783 and from 1788 to 1796. He represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House from 1797 to 1800, and from 1800 to 1814 served as a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, serving as Chief Justice in 1814. He died at Wiscasset while holding a court there. ^[1]

In 1781 he married Abigail Devereux; they had a family of at least six sons and two daughters.

Sewall's great-grandfather Samuel Sewall was a judge at the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts, and subsequently Chief Justice of Massachusetts.

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^ Graves, Eben W. (2007). The Descendants of Henry Sewall (1576-1656) of Manchester and Coventry, England, and Newbury and Rowley, Massachsuetts, 1st ed., Boston, Massachusetts: Newbury Street Press, pp. 229. ISBN 978-0-88082-198-8.