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For the jurist and US Congressman, see Samuel Sewall (congressman).

Samuel Sewall (; March 28, – January 1, ) was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph (), which criticized slavery.

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This collection contains the diaries and commonplace-books of Samuel Sewall, , including descriptions of people and events, notes on sermons and books.

He served for many years as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the province's high court.

Biography

Sewall was born in Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England, on March 28, , the son of Henry and Jane (Dummer) Sewall.

His father, son of the mayor of Coventry, had come to the English North American Massachusetts Bay Colony in , where he married Sewall's mother and returned to England in the s.

Following the Restoration of Charles II to the English throne, the Sewalls again crossed the Atlantic in , settling in Newbury, Massachusetts.

It is there the young Samuel "Sam" grew up along the