Samuel Sewall was an American lawyer. After attending Dummer Charity School, Sewall 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.

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  • Samuel Sewall was an American lawyer. After attending Dummer Charity School, Sewall 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. 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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  • Samuel Sewall was an American lawyer. After attending Dummer Charity School, Sewall 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.
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  • Samuel Sewall (congressman)
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