Maj. Stephen Sewall (1657-1725)

of Salem, Massachusetts; Ancestor of the Sewells

Family
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He was Clerk of the Court at the Salem Witch Trials (his brother Samuel was one of the Judges) but did not subscribe to the hysteria and took in one of the girls suspected of witchcraft whose convulsions stopped soon after. In 1682, he married Margaret Mitchell. They had 17-children of whom nine survived to adulthood.

Parents

Rev. Henry Sewall

of Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts

1615-1700

Jane (Dummer) Sewall

Mrs Jane (Dummer) Sewall

1625-1701

Spouse

Margaret (Mitchell) Sewall

Mrs Margaret (Mitchell) Sewall

1652-1736

Children

Margaret (Sewall) Higginson

Mrs Margaret (Sewall) Higginson

1687-1735

Jonathan Sewall

of Boston, Merchant and Coroner for Suffolk County, Massachusetts

1692-1731

Mitchell Sewall

Clerk of the Superior Court at Salem, Massachusetts

1699-1748

Stephen Sewall

Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature

1702-1760