Helen Josephine Sewall1

F, #18844, b. 2 December 1900, d. 29 November 1992
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Helen Josephine Sewall was born on 2 December 1900 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.2 She was the daughter of Albert Walter Sewall and Ora Maud Wood.1 In 1920 she was a stenographer in a coal company.3 Helen Josephine Sewall died on 29 November 1992 in Arlington, Massachusetts, at the age of 91.4

Citations

  1. [S207] 1910 US Census, Fitchburg Ward 5, Worcester, Massachusetts.
  2. [S232] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Birth Records, 1840-1915.
  3. [S206] 1920 US Census, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
  4. [S232] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Death Index, 1901-1980.

Helen Mary Sewall1,2

F, #25217, b. January 1842, d. 26 August 1842
Pedigree
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Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Helen Mary Sewall was born in January 1842 in New Hampshire.2 She was the daughter of Stephen Sewall and Rhoda Ann Hoyt.1 Helen Mary Sewall died on 26 August 1842 in New Hampshire2 and is buried in the Blossom Hill Cemetery, Concord, Merrimack County, New Hampshire.2

Citations

  1. [S618] Ezra S. Stearns, History of New Hampshire, p. 596.
  2. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "#202777212."

Helen Morgridge Sewall1

F, #12985, b. 29 April 1889, d. 26 May 1973
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Helen Morgridge Sewall was born on 29 April 1889 in Livermore Falls, Maine.2,3 She was the daughter of Eugene Dana Sewall and Fannie Dinsmore Weston.1 Helen Morgridge Sewall married Thomas Kelly LaZure on 20 October 1921 in East Millinocket, Penobscot County, Maine.4,3 Helen Morgridge Sewall died on 26 May 1973 in Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at the age of 84.3

Child of Helen Morgridge Sewall and Thomas Kelly LaZure

Citations

  1. [S153] Charles Nelson Sinnett, Sinnett's Sewall genealogy, p. 32.
  2. [S208] 1900 US Census.
  3. [S483] Kendra Nedja, "Nedjar," e-mail to John Rees, 2009.
  4. [S34] Unverified internet information, http://portalx.bisoex.state.me.us/pls/archives_mhsf/…
  5. [S231] 1930 US Census, East Millinocket, Penobscot, Maine.

Helen Sheppard Sewall1

F, #19784, b. 22 July 1848, d. 31 December 1936
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry (#1)
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry (#2)
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry (#3)
     Helen Sheppard Sewall was born on 22 July 1848 in Massachusetts.2 She was the daughter of Dr. Stephen Bayley Sewall and Hannah Wood Sheppard.1 Helen Sheppard Sewall married Dr. Alexander Johnston Stone L.L.D., son of Daniel Stone and Anna Elizabeth Johnston, on 15 December 1868 in Wiscasset, Maine.3 Helen Sheppard Sewall died on 31 December 1936 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, at the age of 88.2

Children of Helen Sheppard Sewall and Dr. Alexander Johnston Stone L.L.D.

Citations

  1. [S364] Eben Graves, The descendants of Henry Sewall. Vol. II (Unpublished), #394.
  2. [S89] Family Search, Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947.
  3. [S232] Ancestry.com, Maine, Marriage Records, 1713-1937.
  4. [S83] NEHGR, Vol. 3 p. 465.

Helen Turner Sewall1

F, #17261, b. 24 March 1860, d. 10 April 1955
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Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Helen Turner Sewall is also recorded as Nellie Sewall.2 She was born on 24 March 1860 in Hamilton, Illinois.3,4 She was the daughter of Rev. Caleb Marsh Sewall and Catharine Sumner Turner.5 Helen Turner Sewall married William Savage Turner, son of Samuel Baker Turner and Catharine Hoffman Savage, on 19 May 1891 in Clarinda, Iowa.6 Helen Turner Sewall died on 10 April 1955 in McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon, at the age of 95.7 She is buried in River View Cemetery, Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.8

Children of Helen Turner Sewall and William Savage Turner

Citations

  1. [S89] Family Search, New York Births and Christenings, 1640-1962 for Katherine Sewall Turner.
  2. [S107] 1880 US Census, Quincy, Adams, Illinois.
  3. [S209] 1870 US Census, Hamilton, Hancock, Illinois.
  4. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "#144028220 notes."
  5. [S46] Various contributors, Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 84 p. 284.
  6. [S89] Family Search, Iowa, Marriages, 1809-1992.
  7. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "# 144028220."
  8. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "#144028220."
  9. [S232] Ancestry.com, U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942.

Helene Sewall1

F, #26357, b. circa 1896
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Helene Sewall was born circa 1896 in Oregon.2 She was the daughter of Howard Walten Sewall and Lisetta A. Lubken.1 Helene Sewall married Christian A Gaeng on 9 August 1927 in Snohomish County, Washington.1,3

Citations

  1. [S205] Newspaper, Seattle Daily Times, 28 January 1937.
  2. [S231] 1930 US Census, Seattle, King, Washington.
  3. [S89] Family Search, Washington, County Marriages, 1855-2008.

Henrietta A. Sewall1

F, #26599, b. 22 May 1852, d. 6 January 1855
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Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Henrietta A. Sewall was born on 22 May 1852 in Charleston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.2 She was the daughter of Freeman C. Sewall and Susannah Taylor Pierce.1 Henrietta A. Sewall died on 6 January 1855 in Charleston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at the age of 2.3 She is buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.4

Citations

  1. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "Memorial # 199899287."
  2. [S89] Family Search, Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915.
  3. [S89] Family Search, Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924.
  4. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "Memorial # 199899287, Henrietta A. Sewall, showing gravestone photograph."

Henry Sewall

M, #1, b. 1544, d. 16 April 1628
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Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     He was a linen draper in Coventry.1 Henry Sewall was born in 1544 in Coventry, Warwickshire.2,3,4 He was the son of William Sewall and Matilda Horne.2 Henry Sewall married Margaret Grazebrook, daughter of Alverey Grazebrook and Margaret Keene, before September 1575.3 Henry Sewall died on 16 April 1628 in Coventry.2 He was buried in the Drapers' Chapel, St. Michael's, Coventry.5,6

Henry Sewall was appointed Alderman then Mayor in 1589 and again in 1606. He is reputed to have acquired a great estate and to have been a prudent man. He represented Coventry in the Parliament of 1620-22.1

His will, made on 1 September 1624 at Coventry reads:

"Henry Sewall of the parish of St Michael in the city of Coventry, alderman, aged fourscore years or thereabouts, 1 Sept. 1624, proved the last of June 1628 by Margaret Sewall his relict and executrix. To my wife Margaret an annuity or yearly rent charge of eleven pounds, eight shillings, issuing out of certain lands in Ansley in the county of Warwick, granted to me & my heirs forever, and now in the tenure of Elizabeth Throckmorton widow, and all my lands, tenements and hereitaments, with the appurtenances, &c. in the city of Coventry & in Corley and Coundon in the County of Warwick and in Radford Coudon in Urchenfield & Stoke in the County of the city of Coventry. To Henry Sewall, my eldest son, all my lands, tenements and hereitaments, & c. in the hamlet of Radford in the county of the city of Coventry and in Coudon in Urchenfield in the county of the city of Coventry and in Couden in the County of Warwick, and all my lands, tenements & hereditaments, & c. in Dog Lane in the said city, in the occupation of Richard Baldwyn, a messuage or tenement & one garden, with the appurtenances, in Much Park Street, in Coventry, in the tenure of Henry Critchlowe, draper, and all those messuages or tenements, & c. &c. in the said city in the several occupations of John Harbert, William Heyward, Richard Heyes or Walter Wiggens, and all those three tenements in Little Park Street, in the occupation of Mr. Henry Davenport, ----- Thorton, Katherine West, or their assigns, after the decease of my wife Margaret, and during his natural life; then to the heirs of his body lawfully begotten, & c; also to the said Henry, my son, a tenement & garden, & c. &c. in Heylane in the said city, in the tenure of Bryan Conigrave.
To Richard Sewall, my younger son, after the decease of my wife Margaret, lands & tenements, & c. in Corley, in the county of Warwick, which I lately purchased of Stephen Hales Esq. with the wyudell thereupon now standing, and other lands, &c. purchased of Richard Patchett, of Martin Whadocke & of Thomas Nicklyn and of Thomas Barre; in the tenure of Jefford, barber, and a tenement & certain stables called the Sextree in Convetry.
To my daughter Anne, now the wife of Anthonie Power, my messuage & tenement, & c. &c. in Corley, now in the occupation of me the said Henry, which I lately purchased of Daniel Oxenbridge, and other lands, &c. purchased of Thomas Patchet & George & Walter Holbech, and two tenements in Baile Lane in Coventry, one in the tenure of Theophilus Washington, and a messuage in the tenure of Roger Bird and a tenement in the tenure of Joyce Hobson, a widow and late in the occupation of Lawrence Armeson.
To Margaret, my youngest daughter, now the wife of Abraham Randell, tenements without Newgate in the several tenures of Francis Robinson & Edward Coles, lands, & c. purchased of John Horne of Stoke, gentleman, lands in the tenure of John Wilinson, & of William, or Thomas, Pywall, that my messuage or tenement & garden in Balie Lane, in the city of Coventry wherein I now dwell, tenements, &c. in Baile Lane in the occupation of Roger Dudley, James Knib, William Miller, Edward Maplas, Johane Newland, widow, William Cumberledge & Eward Bissaker, a tenement in Earl Street in the occupation of John Wright, a garden in the occupation of Mr Richard Clarke, a tenement I purchased of John Hammond, Doctor in Physick and tenements in Darbie lane inthe occupation of the widow Wothan & the widow Kinsman. Reference also made to tenements in the occupation of Richard Faulkner, Raphe Mellows, Peter Baxter, Henry Wetton, Randall Cleaver, Clerk, Thomas Hobson and John Hill. To my loving friend Humphry Burton forty shillings, &c. &c. Wife Margaret to be executrix and friends Mr William Hancock, of Coventry, alderman, and my loving kinsman Reginald Horne, gentleman, to be overseers. To my cousin John Horne a cloke cloth.
Wit: John Brownell, James Brownell. "
(Webster p.1 has the will proved 8 April 1628, the National Archives gives a date of 30 June 1628.)7,8

Children of Henry Sewall and Margaret Grazebrook

Citations

  1. [S3] Nina Moore Tiffany, Samuel E. Sewell: a memoir, p. 2.
  2. [S2] Ancestor of J.E. McClellan, McClellan Family Tree.
  3. [S13] David Curtis Dearborn, Ancestor Table for Henry Sewell, p.2.
  4. [S26] Hector Livingston Duff, Sewells in the New World, p.1.
  5. [S4] Sandra MacLean Clunies, Clunies files.
  6. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
  7. [S14] Henry F. Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England, p. 153.
  8. [S399] National Archives index.

Henry Sewall

M, #5, b. 8 April 1576, d. March 1656/57
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Henry Sewall was born in 1576 in Coventry.1 He was baptised on 8 April 1576 at St. Michael's Church, Coventry, Warwickshire.2,3,4,5 He was the son of Henry Sewall and Margaret Grazebrook. Henry Sewall may have married firstly Mary Cawarden, daughter of Thomas Cawarden of Mavesyn Ridware and Ann (Unknown), on 21 October 1601 at St. Nicholas, Mavesyn Ridware, Staffordshire, The name is the only suggestion that Henry was of the Coventry Sewalls.6 Henry Sewall married Anne Hunt probably at Manchester.7,8 Henry Sewall married as his second or third wife Ellen Mosley, daughter of Anthony Mosley and Alice Webster, after 16 December 1615 being the date that the Bishop of Chester granted a licence for them to be married at Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire or Didsbury, Lancashire.
(There is a discrepancy here, the notes in the Diary state that Henry was only married twice 1, Anne Hunt and 2, Ellen Nugent, the McClellan family tree clearly shows the earlier marriage, which is also noted by Duff p.13. This is an indication that the Henry who married in 1601 was from a different family.)3,7
In 1623 Henry Sewall was living in Manchester, England.9 He emigrated in 1635 to Massachusetts; "together with his wife Anne."10 He and Ellen Mosley resided at Ipswich, Massachusetts, on 5 June 1638; when her husband Henry was presented to the grand jury for beating her. This appears to be another example of the temper that his mother refered to in her will.3 In 1646 Henry Sewall was recorded as living in Rowley.3 He died in March 1656/57 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, at the age of 80 'died there the "first month 1656."3 '

Child of Henry Sewall and Anne Hunt

Child of Henry Sewall and Ellen Mosley

Citations

  1. [S2] Ancestor of J.E. McClellan, McClellan Family Tree.
  2. [S9] Carol Berkin, Jonathan Sewell, p.1.
  3. [S13] David Curtis Dearborn, Ancestor Table for Henry Sewell.
  4. [S63] John Farmer, Genealogical register, p. 259.
  5. [S124] Samuel (Rev.) Sewall, Pedigree of Sewall.
  6. [S397] Staffordshire Parish Registers Society, Mavesyn Ridware Parish Registers, p. 35.
  7. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1072.
  8. [S31] Maryland Historical Magazine, 1909, p. 291.
  9. [S24] Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb, Early New England People, p. 215.
  10. [S29] Henry Sewall Webster, Thomas Sewall, p.1.
  11. [S89] Family Search, The Registers of the cathedral church of Manchester (Lancashire). Axon, Ernest.

Henry Sewall

M, #49, b. 7 September 1682, d. 29 June 1760
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Henry Sewall was born on 7 September 1682 in Newbury, Massachusetts.1,2 He was the son of John Sewall and Hannah Fessenden. Henry Sewall married Elizabeth Titcomb, daughter of Benaiah Titcomb and Sarah Brown, on 1 January 1707 in Newbury ?3 Henry Sewall was living in Newbury.4 He died on 29 June 1760 at the age of 77.3

Children of Henry Sewall and Elizabeth Titcomb

Citations

  1. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1078.
  2. [S130] Massachusetts Vital Records.
  3. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1079.
  4. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
  5. [S365] Eben Graves, The descendants of Henry Sewall. Vol. II (Unpublished), p. 171.

Henry Sewall1

M, #59, b. 25 October 1701, d. 10 July 1721
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Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Henry Sewall was baptised on 25 October 1701 by Rev. W. Noyes.2 He was born on 25 October 1701.2,3 He was the son of Major Stephen Sewall and Margaret Mitchell. Henry Sewall died on 10 July 1721 in Boston at the age of 19 of small pox, he was buried privately during the night.

Citations

  1. [S2] Ancestor of J.E. McClellan, McClellan Family Tree.
  2. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
  3. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1082.

Henry Sewall

M, #72, b. 8 March 1719/20, d. 29 May 1771
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Henry Sewall was born on 8 March 1719/20.1 He was the son of Samuel Sewall and Rebecca Dudley.2 Henry Sewall was baptised on 20 March 1720.3 He graduated in 1738 from Harvard.4 He was a said to be "devoting himself to agriculture."4 He was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk.4 He married Ann White, daughter of Samuel White and Anna Drew, on 8 August 1743. Henry Sewall died on 29 May 1771 in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 51 "the worthy descendent of an ancient and honourable family. He had a natural aversion to the noise and vanity of the world, and preferred the silent walks of private and retired life; where he exhibited with an animal lustre, the virtues of the father, friend, and neighbour. He was cheerful in his disposition; gay without levity; rich without pride; and without ostentation an honest man". Essex Gazette.5,6 He was buried in Walnut Street Cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts.3

Children of Henry Sewall and Ann White

Citations

  1. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1086.
  2. [S24] Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb, Early New England People, p. 221.
  3. [S369] Harriet Alma Cummings, Walnut Street Cemetery.
  4. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
  5. [S172] Boston Evening Post, 3 June 1771.
  6. [S205] Newspaper, Essex Gazette, 11 June 1771.

Henry Sewall1

M, #82, b. 26 March 1727, d. 2 November 1792
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Henry Sewall was born on 26 March 1727 in York, Maine.2,3 He was the son of Nicholas Sewall and Mehitable Storer. Henry Sewall married Abigail Titcomb, daughter of Joseph Titcomb and Sarah Batchelder, on 8 December 1749 in York, Maine, the marriage was performed by Jeremy Moulton.4 Henry Sewall died on 2 November 1792 in York, Maine, at the age of 655 and is buried in The Old Grave Yard, York, the inscription on his gravestone reads "In memory of Mr. Henry Sewall, Bricklayer, Who departed this Life Nov 2d 1792 in the 66th year of his age. He was an Honest man and a Christian .....5,6 "

Children of Henry Sewall and Abigail Titcomb

Citations

  1. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1079 for military rank.
  2. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1079.
  3. [S83] NEHGR, Vol. 100, p. 60.
  4. [S83] NEHGR, Vol. 114 p. 294. Vital Records of York, Maine.
  5. [S83] NEHGR, Vol. 5, p. 69.
  6. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "Memorial # 22909461."
  7. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.

Henry Sewall

M, #95, b. 19 January 1748/49, d. 17 October 1772
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Henry Sewall was born on 19 January 1748/49 in Brookline, Massachusetts.1 He was the son of Henry Sewall and Ann White. Henry Sewall graduated in 1768 from Harvard.2 He died on 17 October 1772 in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 23 never married.2,3

Citations

  1. [S335] Marston. Watson, Royal Families. Vol. 1., p. 99.
  2. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1086.
  3. [S124] Samuel (Rev.) Sewall, Pedigree of Sewall.

Henry Sewall1

M, #662, b. 7 February 1740, d. 24 January 1795
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Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Henry Sewall was living in Bath.2 He was born on 7 February 1740 in York, Maine, (or 23 Feb 1739.)3,4,5 He was the son of Capt. Samuel Sewall and Sarah Batchelder.1 Henry Sewall married first Mary Stinson, daughter of John Stinson and Jane Huston, on 31 January 1764.4,6,7,8 In 1775 served on the Committee of Safety and in the Provincial Congress.4 Henry Sewall married Sarah Henry, daughter of James Henry, on 18 November 1779 in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine.9 Henry Sewall died on 24 January 1795 in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine, at the age of 544,5 and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine.10
Henry Sewall, late of Bath. Sarah Sewall, widow, and James Sewall, both of Bath, Adm’rs, 29 May, 1795. [VI, 101.] John Minot Moody and Thomas Clapp, both of Bath, sureties. Inventory by Joshua Philbrook, Joshua Raynes and Benjamin Ham, all of Bath, 19 Aug., 1795. [VII, 212-213.] Division of estate among Samuel Sewall, Jenny Sewall, Betsey Davenport, James Sewall, Henry Sewall, David Sewall, Joshua Sewall, Nancy Sewall, Hannah Sewall, Polly Sewall and Charles Sewall, children of deceased, by Edward Hall Page and Christopher Cushing, both of Bath, and William Bradbury, of a place called Chester, Kennebec County, 19 Sep., 1801. [VIII, 173-4.] Widow’s dower set off by Edward Hall Page, Christopher Cushing and William Bradbury, 19 Sep., 1801. [Unrecorded.]11

Children of Henry Sewall and Mary Stinson

Children of Henry Sewall and Sarah Henry

Citations

  1. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
  2. [S22] Rev. Jotham Sewall, A memoir of Rev. Jotham Sewall of Chesterville, Maine., p. 37.
  3. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1079.
  4. [S46] Various contributors, Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 44 p. 341.
  5. [S83] NEHGR, Vol. 113 p. 196. Vital Records of York, Maine.
  6. [S46] Various contributors, Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 92 p. 56.
  7. [S83] NEHGR, Vol. 66 p. 86.
  8. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 7 p. 454.
  9. [S89] Family Search, Vital records, 1779-1903 Bath (Maine).
  10. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "Memorial # 75780430, Henry Sewall, showing gravestone photograph."
  11. [S232] Ancestry.com, Lincoln County, Maine, Probate Records, 1760-1800.

Henry Sewall1

M, #900, b. 19 July 1793, d. 23 July 1866
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry (#1)
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry (#2)
     Henry Sewall was born on 19 July 1793 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine.2,3,4 He was the son of Rev. Jotham Sewall and Jenny Sewall.5 Henry Sewall married Mary Witherell, daughter of Major Obadiah Witherell and Mary (Unknown), on 15 January 1816 in Norridgewock, Maine.6 Henry Sewall appears on the census of 1850 at Chesterville.3 He died on 23 July 1866 in Delaware County, Ohio, at the age of 73 (or 20 July in Chesterville, Morrow County, Ohio)7,8 and is buried in Cheshire Cemetery, Berlin Township, Delaware County, Ohio. His gravestone reads: Henry Sewall/ Born/ Chesterville, Me/ Died/ July 23, 1866/ Aged/ 73 years 4 days/ Soldier in War of 1812.9

Henry was a musician in Capt. Samuel Linscott's Company, Lieut. David McGaffey's Regiment in Massachusetts Volunteer Militia from Sept. 12, 1814 to Sept. 26, 1814. The Company was raised in Chesterville. Henry's brother Jotham, Jr. was the Drum Major in McGaffey's Regiment. Henry, as a private, was one of 19 men transferred to Capt. John Gould's Company, Lieut. Ellis Sweet's Regiment in Massachusetts Volunteer Militia from Sept. 26, 1814 to Nov. 5, 1814. The Company was raised in Wilton.10

Children of Henry Sewall and Mary Witherell

Citations

  1. [S22] Rev. Jotham Sewall, A memoir of Rev. Jotham Sewall of Chesterville, Maine., index.
  2. [S22] Rev. Jotham Sewall, A memoir of Rev. Jotham Sewall of Chesterville, Maine., p. 55.
  3. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 7 p. 454.
  4. [S89] Family Search, Vital records, 1802-1892 (1918) Chesterville (Maine). Town Clerk.
  5. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
  6. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 7 p. 455.
  7. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "Memorial # 53505912."
  8. [S89] Family Search, 16 November 1930.
  9. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "Memorial # 53505912, Henry Sewall, showing gravestone photograph."
  10. [S641] Kristine Lewis, "Henry Sewall," e-mail to John Rees, 2017 et seq., 4 April 2022.
  11. [S153] Charles Nelson Sinnett, Sinnett's Sewall genealogy, p. 69.

Henry Sewall1

M, #2516, b. 7 December 1685, d. 22 December 1685
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Henry Sewall was born on 7 December 1685 "about One in the Night my Wife is brought to bed of a Son."1,2 He was the son of Chief Justice Samuel E. Sewall and Hannah Hull.1 Henry Sewall was baptised on 13 December 1685 "Mr. Willard baptizeth my Son lately born, whom I named Henry.2 He died on 22 December 1685 "about Sun-rise, or a little after, he fell asleep, I hope in Jesus, and that a mansion was ready for him in the Father's House. Died in Nurse Hill's Lap."3 He was buried on 24 December 1685.3

Citations

  1. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1076.
  2. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 87.
  3. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 89.

Henry Sewall1

M, #4434, b. before 1702, d. before 7 May 1722
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
Descendants of Col. Henry Sewall of Maryland
     Henry Sewall was born before 1702. He was the son of Major Nicholas Sewall and Susanna Burgess. Henry Sewall married Elizabeth Lawson.1 Henry Sewall made a will on 19 March 1721/22 Testator desires that father Maj. Nicho. Sewell will permit wife - to have her thirds in all testator's lands, and will give sd. lands to his 2 child. Henry and Nicho. and their hrs. or to the survivor shd. either die before of age. Personal estate to wife - and child. afsd.
Exs.: Wife —– and bro. Nicho.
Test: Mrs. Ann Sewell, James Richardson, Clement Sewell, Wm. Huddleston. 17, 142. He died before 7 May 1722 in St. Mary's County, Maryland.1,2 The will was proved on 7 May 1722.

Child of Henry Sewall and Elizabeth Lawson

Citations

  1. [S31] Maryland Historical Magazine, 1909, p. 293.
  2. [S148] Murphy Andrews Sewall, Murph Sewall family tree.

Henry Sewall1

M, #12097, b. before 1737, d. 1779
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
Descendants of Col. Henry Sewall of Maryland
     Henry Sewall was born before 1737 in St. Mary's County, Maryland.1 He was the son of Clement Sewall and Mary Smith. Henry Sewall married Mary Smith before 1757.1 Henry Sewall died in 1779 in St. Mary's County, Maryland.1

Children of Henry Sewall and Mary Smith

Citations

  1. [S148] Murphy Andrews Sewall, Murph Sewall family tree.

Henry Sewall1

M, #12117, b. 3 June 1764, d. after 1807
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
Descendants of Col. Henry Sewall of Maryland
     Henry Sewall was born on 3 June 1764 in Leonardtown, St. Mary's County, Maryland.2,3 He was the son of Henry Sewall and Mary Smith.1 Henry Sewall died after 1807.1

Citations

  1. [S148] Murphy Andrews Sewall, Murph Sewall family tree.
  2. [S232] Ancestry.com, Catholic Families of Southern Maryland being Register of baptisms and marriages congregations to St. Francis Xavier and St. Inigoes.
  3. [S89] Family Search, Maryland, Births and Christenings, 1650-1995.

Henry Sewall1

M, #12316, b. 3 December 1822, d. 4 September 1887
Pedigree
Charts
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry (#1)
Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry (#2)
     Henry Sewall was born on 3 December 1822 in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine.2 He was the son of Charles Sewall and Sophia Gill.1 Henry Sewall married Harriet Virginia Smith on 3 November 1847 in Augusta, Maine.3,4 Henry Sewall shot himself on 4 September 1887 in Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, at the age of 645,6 and is buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine.7

He was for a number of years in the shoe business in Augusta with Stephen Deering. On the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted and served in the 9th Maine Regiment through the South Carolina Campaign. He was afterwards attached to the 19th Maine Regiment, first as sergeant and subsequently as lieutenant and captain. During the closing years of the war he was adjutant of the regiment. He was wounded in the battle of Gettysburg but remained with his regiment and participated in all the subsequent movements of the army under General Grant. Soon after the war he was appointed Superintendant of County Buildings.5,8

Children of Henry Sewall and Harriet Virginia Smith

Citations

  1. [S89] Family Search, Vital records of Augusta, ME.
  2. [S149] American Ancestors, , Vital Records of Augusta, ME.
  3. [S153] Charles Nelson Sinnett, Sinnett's Sewall genealogy, p. 65.
  4. [S205] Newspaper, Portland Weekly Advertiser (Portland, ME), 16 November 1947.
  5. [S205] Newspaper, Daily Kennebec Journal, Augusta, Maine, Tuesday, September 06, 1887. Page 3.
  6. [S107] 1880 US Census, Oakland, Alameda, California.
  7. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "Memorial # 115195726, Henry Sewall, showing gravestone photograph."
  8. [S212] James W. North, The history of Augusta, p. 935.

Henry Sewall1

M, #18066, b. circa 1799, d. 15 October 1865
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     Henry Sewall was born circa 1799 in Foxcroft, Maine.1,2 He was the son of Rev. Henry Sewall and Esther Wheelwright Moody.1 Henry Sewall married Grace Hallahan on 16 September 1834 in Groton.3 Henry Sewall married secondly Mary C. Hall, daughter of Thomas Hall, on 15 October 1852 in Boston, Massachusetts.2 Henry Sewall died on 15 October 1865.1 He was buried in Knowlton Mills Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine.4

Citations

  1. [S34] Unverified internet information, http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/me/piscataquis/…
  2. [S232] Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915.
  3. [S354] Lorraine Cook, ed. White, The Barbour Collection.
  4. [S34] Unverified internet information, http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/me/… [August 2008].

Henry Sewall1

M, #21308, d. 1 December 1801
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Descendants of Col. Henry Sewall of Maryland
     Henry Sewall was the son of Nicholas Lewis Sewall.1 Henry Sewall died on 1 December 1801 in Baltimore.2

Citations

  1. [S562] Henry C. Peden, Revolutionary Patriots of Calvert, p. 235.
  2. [S205] Newspaper, New York Evening Post: Death Notices, 1801-1890.

Henry Sewall

M, #24519
Pedigree
     Henry Sewall was born in Cecil County, Maryland. Note: The parents of this Henry Sewall are presently unknown, despite statements to the contrary. This line remains on this site in case it attracts evidence either way.

Child of Henry Sewall

Colonel Henry Sewall

M, #592, b. 1624, d. 1665
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Descendants of Col. Henry Sewall of Maryland
     Colonel Henry Sewall was born in 1624.1 He was the son of Richard Sewall and Mary Dugdale.2 Colonel Henry Sewall was Roman Catholic. He married Jane Lowe, daughter of Vincent Lowe and Ann Cavendish, circa 1654 in England.3,4 Colonel Henry Sewall and Jane Lowe emigrated in 1661 to Maryland.5 On 20 August 1661 "Henry Sewell formerly of London, England, but now of Calvert County, Maryland" was commissioned Councillor, Secretary, and Judge of the probate of Wills for the Province (Md. Archives iii, 439), and he held these offices until his death.
On the 12th of September, 1661, Lord Baltimore issued a special warrant of 2,000 acres of land to Mr. Henry Sewall, of London. “My Secretary," said land to be erected into a manor, with all the rights and privileges thereto appertaining. This was the beautiful estate of Mattapony, with its curious Indian name, first owned by the Jesuits by gift from the King of the Mattapanient to them soon after the settlement, but confiscated to the Lord Baltimore when the law against the Jesuit Society was put into force.3,6 Colonel Henry Sewall died in 1665 either in England or on the voyage from Maryland.2,7 He made a will on 25 April 1664

Henry Sewall (d. 1665)
Will
Patuxent River, Saint Mary’s County, Maryland
Maryland Hall of Records
Liber 1, folio 225
Written 1664
Proved 19th April 1665

Note: The Will has major holes in it making it impossible to transcribe completely

In the name of God Amen the 2[hole] 1664
I Henry Sewall of Putuxant River [of the pro]vince of Maryland Esq Intending by the Grace of allmight[y God] to make a Voyage out of the province into the Kingdom of [Eng]land in the good Ship (called the Maryland Merchant) this present year and being in good Sound and perfect health both in [mind] and Memory Thanks be to almighty God therefore [hole] calling to mind the uncertain Estate of all Earthly thingColonel Henry Sewall in this transitory World and especially of mans Life [with kn]owing that all fflesh must yield to Death when it Shall [please?] God the Creator of all things to Call, Doe make [constit]ute ordaine and declare this my last Will and Testament in Manner and forme following Revokeing and adnulling by these presents all and every Testament and Testaments Will and Wills heretofore by me made and Delivered Either by word or Writing and this is to be only taken for my Last Will and Testament and none other.

And first being penitent for my Sins Past most humbly desireing forgiveness for the same, I give and Committ my Soul into the arms of God my Saviour and Redeemer in whom by the meritts of Jesus Christ, I trust and believe assuredly to be Saved and that my Soul with my body at the generall Day of Resurreccon shall rise with Joy and through the Meritts of Christ Death and Passion Inheritt the Kingdom of Heaven

My body to the Earth from whence it was Created And as Concerning my temporall Estate which it hath pleased God (far above my Deserts) to bestow upon me whereof I am as Steward(?) in this World I doe give and devise in manner and form following That is [to say]

First my Debts and funeral charges being paid then I will and ordaine that my well beloved Wife Jane May if she see Cause Sell alienate or dispose of all the whole or any part or parcell of my Lands Goods or Chattells that is to Say aw well of the Lands that I have already Pattented as also those that I Claime by Virtue of Certificates already returned together with that two Thousand acres of Land that the Honble Charles Calvert Esq hath promised to de[liver] for(?) a Pattent for in my name which said Land lyeth upon the Ridge, all of which after such Legacyes as I shall hereaft[er or]daine then to be disposed of as I shall hereafter mencon [hole] and bequeath to my Brother Samuell Sewall two hundre[d acres] of Land where my good wife Shall think fitt and two Co[ws an]d one Sow and one man Servant for and dureing his [?] Life and afterwards to the heirs of his body Law[fully] begotten or to be begotten, and for want of such Issues then [to ret]urn to the right of my heires.

Item [I g]ive and bequeath to my Cousin Richard Dudly one hund[red a]cres of Land according to my dear Wives good likeing [hole] together with one Cowe and one Sowe to have and to [hole] to him the said Richard and his heires for Ever.

Item I give and bequeath three thousand Pounds of Tobacco to the ffathers now resident in this Province to have my Soul Prayed for the whole and sole remainder of my Estate as well reall as personall

I give and bequeath to my well beloved wife Jane, for and during her naturall life and afterward to be equally divided amongst my dear Children Nicholas Elizabeth Mary and Ann Sewall allwayes provided that the Child or Children that my Dear wife now is Bigg of is to have his her or their Equally proportion and if it shall so happen that any of my said children shall dye before they attaine to Such ages as shall be fitt for them to receive their parts that then I will and ordaine that his or her part soe dying shall be Equally divided amongst the rest.

Item I made and ordaine my well beloved Wife Jane my full whole and sole Executrix of this my Last will and Testament and my dear friend Charles and William Calvert Esqrs my over seers of this my last Will Testament and I give to Either of them twenty(?) Shillings in Silver or Gold to buy them ? Ring In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and Seale the day and year above mentioned Henry Sewall (seal)

Test. William Brotton Edward Savage
19th Aprill 1665

This day came afore me Charles Calvert Esq Lieut and Governor of the province of Maryland William Brotton and Edward Savage and declared upon [oath?] that this Will of Henry Sewall Esq was signed and sealed by him in the view of both these deponents, Declaring withal that it was his last Will and Testament and they further Declare that they know not of any other Will Since made [by him]
Charles Calvert

Reproduced with the kind permission of Joseph H. Howard © Contributed to the USGenWeb Archives by Joseph H. Howard. All Rights Reserved.3

Children of Colonel Henry Sewall and Jane Lowe

Citations

  1. [S87] Kate Hogenson, Communication from K. Hogenson, Descendants of William (Shewell) Sewall.
  2. [S13] David Curtis Dearborn, Ancestor Table for Henry Sewell.
  3. [S31] Maryland Historical Magazine, 1909, p. 292.
  4. [S33] Margaret K. Fresco, St. Mary's Co., p. 193.
  5. [S156] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 469.
  6. [S205] Newspaper, The Baltimore Sun, 27 December 1903.
  7. [S31] Maryland Historical Magazine, 1909, p. 291.
  8. [S4] Sandra MacLean Clunies, Clunies files.

Dr. Henry Sewall1

M, #1375, b. 25 May 1855, d. 8 July 1936
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Dr. Henry Sewall
(1855-1936)
     Dr. Henry Sewall was born on 25 May 1855 in Winchester, Virginia.2,3 He was the son of Rev. Thomas Sewall and Julia Elizabeth Waters.1 Dr. Henry Sewall married Isabel Josephine Vickers, daughter of J.J. Vickers, on 22 September 1887 in St. James' Cathedral, Toronto.4 Dr. Henry Sewall made his will in 1935
I, HENRY SEWALL, now residing and domiciled in the City and County of Denver, State of Colorado, of sound and disposing mind and memory, do hereby make, publish, and declare this my last will and testament in manner following:
ARTICLE I I hereby revoke and declare null and void all other wills codicils, or testamentary writings by me at any time heretofore made
ARTICLE II I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be first paid as soon as may be after my death.
ARTICLE III I give and bequeath to the Medical Society of the City and County of Denver such of my books, journals, reprints, and other volumes relating to the field of medicine and scientific research as the librarian of the Medical Library may select.
ARTICLE IV I give and bequeath the portrait of my grandfather Doctor Thomas Sewall, painted by Harding, to George Washington University of Washington, D.C. of which institution my grandfather was co-founder and sometime professor in the medical department.
ARTICLE V All of the rest, residue, and remainder of my estate of whatsoever nature and wheresoever situated I give, devise, and bequeath to my wife Isabel J. Sewall
ARTICLE VI I hereby nominate, constitute, and appoint The International Trust Company as executor of this my last will and testament
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I, HENRY SEWALL, have to each and every of the two typewritten pages of this my last will and testament subscribed my name and have to this page, which is the second page thereof, both subscribed my name and set my seal this 20th day of December, 1935. Henry Sewall (SEAL.)
Dr. Henry Sewall died on 8 July 1936 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, at the age of 81 from a coronary thrombosis. s.n.p. and is buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Denver.5

He received his preparatory education in private schools in Baltimore and Brooklyn, and entered Wesleyan University, where he graduated B.Sc. in 1876. He then took up postgraduate work at John Hopkins University, where he was Assistant in Biology from 1876 to 1878, Fellow in Biology in 1878-1879, and where he received his Ph.D. Over the following year he studied in Europe, and after that became Associate in Biology at John Hopkins University. In 1881 he was called to the Professorship of Physiology at the University of Michigan, where he performed research on equilibrium, muscle contraction, respiration and colour vision, and is best known for immunizing animals against snake venom, demonstrating the principle of antitoxin production. He held this position to 1889, when he moved to Denver, Colorado, and accepting a similar position in the University of Denver. He was Assistant Health Commissioner of Denver, 1891 to 1893. Secretary Colorado State Board of Health, 1893-1899; visiting physician to St. Luke's and Denver County Hospitals from 1891. He was a member of the American Physiological Society, of the Association of American Physicians, the American Climatological Society, and the American Medical Association.

Dr. Henry Sewall and his wife, Isabel, bought a house at 1380 Vine St. in 1904. Dr. Sewall had struggled with illness as a child and because of this he was extremely interested in helping children develop. Dr. Sewall and Isabel willed their home to the cause of helping children with special needs. Dr. Sewall died in 1936 at the age of 81. The Sewall Child Development center was founded in 1944.6

"For a physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal of a god."


No tribute to our late colleague, Dr. Henry Sewall, could be better penned than this quotation for Hippocrates. The passing of one who gave his life to the science and art of medicine rather than to enrichment is no common event.
It was his instinct to seek to answer the "wherefore" of every "why" and in his presence one could almost sense the emanations of intellect. The spirit to seek out Nature's secrets had existed in a grandfather, Thomas Sewall, who was graduated in medicine at Harvard in 1812. The literary talent, which enriched his publications, came from his father, a clergyman, known as the "silver-tongued Sewall." Such inherited traits were enhanced by the lifelong help and devotion of his wife, with whom we now share her great sorrow.
It has been well written that "Perhaps there is no science which requires so penetrating an intellect, so much talent and genius, so much force of mind, so much acuteness and memory, as the science of medicine. The high character of a perfect master of the art must be the result of a combination of a multiplicity of qualifications, which must be partly natural, and partly acquired and improved by laborious cultivation." It was such a combination which made of Henry Sewall a great physician, scholar and gentleman.
In early life it was the good fortune of Henry Sewall to work under two great physiologists - Michael Foster in England, and Carl Ludwig in Germany. Of Michael Foster, Sewall wrote, "He despised the foible of vanity and had no patience with mercenary inclinations." In Carl Ludwig, Sewall admired the dogged determination to complete an experiment, and he later wrote, "It set me to thinking perhaps it was this sort of thing that made Ludwig preeminent." It is easy to see the influence of these great men in the life of Henry Sewall, and it was such an influence he passed on successfully to another generation.
Pondering over Jenner's vaccination, Pasteur discovered that the inoculation of attenuated organisms of chicken cholera resulted in immunization. Pondering over Pasteur's publications Henry Sewall was led to investigate the possible immunization of pigeons to rattlesnake venom. It was known that pigeons were peculiarly sensitive to rattlesnake venom. First determining the minimum fatal dose, Henry Sewall, in 1887, by repeated inoculations of sub-minimal doses successfully immunized pigeons to this poisonous protein. These experiments were recognized in Europe as the foundation on which the development of antitoxins was built. Physicians from all parts of the world have stood in reverence before the tablet erected at Ann Arbor to commemorate the experiments of Henry Sewall, the former Professor of Physiology at the University of Michigan.
Pulmonary tuberculosis brought Henry Sewall to Denver, and the courage with which he met this affliction and its complications and the triumph over typhoid, with rib necrosis, is well known to his friends. No better basis for medical practice exists than training in physiology, and the Ph.D. of Johns Hopkins of 1879 became an M.D. of the University of Denver in 18S9. The man of thought became the medical practitioner and thus was fulfilled another Hippocratic maxim: "For many cases need, not reasoning, but practical help."
The practice of medicine was illuminated by the spirit of investigation, and in heart disease and in tuberculosis the research spirit of Henry Sewall prevailed. For many years he worked in and inspired the research department of the National Jewish Hospital.
To have been president of the Colorado State Medical Society, of the National Tuberculosis Association, of the American Climatological and Clinical Association, and of the Association of American Physicians; to have been the recipient of the Kober medal of the Association of American Physicians and of the Trudeau medal of the National Tuberculosis Association - such are honors in recognition of worth which few physicians can attain.
As a practitioner, and as a consultant in internal medicine, his consideration, understanding, gentleness, and effort will live in the medical history of Colorado just as his scientific spirit will live in the medical history of the world.
A splendid portrait of Dr. Sewall by McClymont hangs on the walls of the library of the Denver County Medical Society.
Born in Winchester, Va., May 25, 1855, Dr. Henry Sewall died from coronary thrombosis in Denver, July 8, 1936.
The desire of all physicians will be to join in the words of the greatest of poets:
"Quiet consummation have;
And renowned be thy grave! "

Dr. Gerald Webb writing in Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association. 1936; 52: xlviii-1.

Citations

  1. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
  2. [S206] 1920 US Census.
  3. [S268] Ephraim Orcutt Jameson, The Choates in America, p. 195.
  4. [S205] Newspaper, Weekly Expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.), 29 Sept. 1887.
  5. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "# 33815047."
  6. [S359] Burke Aaron Hinsdale, History of the University of Michigan, p. 265.

General Henry Sewall

M, #85, b. 24 October 1752, d. 4 September 1845
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Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry (#3)
     General Henry Sewall was born on 24 October 1752 in Newtown, York, Maine.1,2,3 He was the son of Henry Sewall and Abigail Titcomb. General Henry Sewall was baptised on 29 October 1752 at York, Maine.4 He married firstly Tabitha Sewall, daughter of John Sewall and Mary Sayward, on 9 February 1786 at Georgetown.5 General Henry Sewall married secondly Rachel Crosby, daughter of Simon Crosby and Sarah Sewall, on 30 June 1811 at Salem, Massachusetts, they were first cousins. There is a record of their marriage intention dated 18 May 1811 in the Augusta Vital Records.6,7,3 General Henry Sewall married thirdly Elizabeth Lowell, daughter of John Lowell and Elizabeth Scollay, on 9 September 1833 at Augusta, Maine.5,3 General Henry Sewall died on 4 September 1845 in Augusta, Maine, at the age of 928,5,3 and is buried in Mount Vernon Cemetery, Augusta, Maine, where his head stone gives his dates.9

The Maine Cultivator and Hallowell Gazette reports: The following biographical sketch of his life was composed by himself, and is taken from manuscript of his own hand writing:- "On the breaking out of the Revolutionary war, he engaged as a soldier in a regiment of the Massachusetts line, in May 1775, marched therewith to Cambridge, and in the course of the three or four campaigns, he passed through the grades of sergeant, ensign and lieutenant, to that of Captain, which rank he sustained to the end of the war. He was in the battle at Hubbarton, in the retreat from Ticonderoga, (June 1777) and in one of the skirmishes previous to the surrender of Burgoyne's army at Saratoga, in October 1777, of which event he was a witness. After achieving this victory, the northern troops being ordered to the south, he marched with them to Pennsylvania, and joined the main army under Gen. Washington at Whitemarsh, near Philadelphia, in November following, wintered at Valley- Forge in 1778, and passed the residue of the war in New Jersey and the highlands of New York, particularly at West Point. While a subaltern he was appointed a Muster master to several brigades and corps; and during the last three years of the war, while a captain, filled the office of Aid-de-camp to Major General Heath of Massachusetts.     
Immediately after the peace, in Sept. 1783, he came to Fort Western, then Hallowell, now Augusta, and opened a store near that place, in company with Mr. Wm. Burley of Beverly, and continued in that business about five years. He was chosen Town Clerk of the original town of Hallowell in 1778, and sustained that office (annually) about 35yrs; during which period he was also for several years elected chairman of the board of Selectmen. He was appointed Clerk of the U. S. District Court of Maine at its original formation, December 1789, under Judge David Sewall, and continued in that office during the whole period of his administration, and one year of that of Judge Parris his successor, in all 29 years. He was chosen Register of Deeds for Kennebec county at its first organization, 1799, and sustained the office 17 yrs. He held in succession the commission of Division-Inspector, Brigadier-General and Major-General, of the militia of the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, under the Governor of Massachusetts, for the space of 80 years, until he resigned all his military offices in June 1820, to Wm. King, the first Governor of Maine. He held also several commissions of the Peace and of the Quorum, and of the Dedimus, under Massachusetts and Maine. He was one of the Church formed at Hallowell (South parish) over which the Rev. Mr. Gillet was ordained in Aug. 1795, was appointed a deacon in Sept. the same year, and has continued an officer therein to the present time. He was elected a member of the A. B. C. F. M. in 1818.
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"Before the Revolution he was a mason by trade; corporal in Prescott’s Massachusetts regiment, May 1775. The following sketch for his service in the Revolutionary War appears in Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War (13:1018).
     Henry Sewall, Falmouth (also given York). Capt. David Bradish’s co; billeting allowed from date of enlistment, May 12, 1775, to July 8, 1775; credited with 57 days allowance; also, 4th Sergeant, Capt. David Bradish’s co., Col. Edmund Phinney’s (31st) Regt; company return endorsed “Octr 6th 1775;” also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Cambridge Camp, Dec. 15, 1775; also, Ensign, Capt. Tobias Fernald’s (2d) co., Col. Edmund Phinney’s Regt; muster roll of field, staff, and commissioned officers, dated Garrison at Fort George, Dec. 8, 1776; appointed Jan. 1, 1776; reported re-engaged Nov. 13, 1776, as 1st Lieutenant in Col. Brewer’s Regt; also, Captain, Col. Sprout’s Regt; Continental Army pay accounts for service from Jan. 1, 1777, to Dec. 31, 1779; reported as serving 29 mos. 25 days as Lieutenant, 6 mos. 5 days as Captain; also, 1st Lieutenant, Col. Samuel Brewer’s Regt; pay abstract of officers for rations from Jan. 1, 1777, to March 31, 1777, dated Boston; said Sewall credited with 180 rations; also, Lieutenant, 12th Mass. Regt. commanded by Maj. Tobias Fernald; return dated Boston, of officers who were in actual service and who had not been absent subsequent to May -, 1777, except by leave of proper authority; also, 1st Lieutenant, Capt. Donnell’s co., Col. Brewer’s Regt; return dated Camp at Valley Forge, Jan. 22, 1778; residence, York; also, letter from Lieut. Col. Samuel Carlton to the Board of War, at Boston, dated West Point, Dec. 27, 1778, asking that clothing be delivered said Sewall, Lieutenant, and others, officers of (late) Col. Brewer’s Regt; also, Col. Carlton’s (late Brewer’s) Regt; return of officers for clothing, dated Boston, Feb. 2, 1770; also, Captain, 12th Mass. Regt; list of officers; commissioned June 25, 1779; also, Lieutenant, (late) Col. Brewer’s (12th) Regt; return of officers for the moiety of money due July 15, 1779; reported Commissary of Musters; also, Captain, 12th Mass. Regt; list of settlements of rank of Continental officers, dated West Point, made by a Board held for the purpose and confirmed by Congress Sept. 6, 1779; commissioned June 25, 1779; also, pay roll of Capt. Sylvanus Smith’s co., Col. Timothy Bigelow’s (15th) Regt., for Oct., 1779, signed by said Sewall, Commissary of Musters, sworn to at Peekskill; also, Captain; return of officers belonging to (late) 12th Mass. Regt. commanded by Lieut. Col. Ebenezer Sprout, “now in actual service,” dated Boston, Jan. 17, 1781; also, list of men belonging to said Sewall’s co., 2d Mass. Regt., who had enlisted for the war, as returned by said Sewall, Captain, dated West Point, Jan. 28, 1781.
     Henry transferred to 2nd Massachusetts, 3 May 1782. He was the Major and Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Heath from 19 May 1779 to June 1783.
     In 1783 he settled at Fort Western, Hallowell, Maine; was Town Clerk of Hallowell, then of Augusta for thirty-five years. He served as Clerk of the District Court of Maine, 1789 until 1818. He was the Register of Deeds of Kennebec County from 1799 to 1816. And was a Major-General, 8th Division, Massachusetts (Maine) State Militia. The diary he kept while in the Army has been printed in the Maine Farmer (August - November, 1872).
     Henry was an Original Member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati from 1783 until 1845. He later served as the Vice President of the Society in 1845. Henry was granted a Bounty Land Warrant 26 June 1789, and applied for a soldier’s pension 30 March 1819. His widow Elizabeth applied for a widow’s pension 1 March 1835, age 75 yrs.10,11,12

Children of General Henry Sewall and Tabitha Sewall

Citations

  1. [S24] Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb, Early New England People, p. 226, 1762 misprint.
  2. [S83] NEHGR, Vol. 112 p. 23. Vital Records of York, Maine.
  3. [S149] American Ancestors, , Vital Records of Augusta, ME.
  4. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 7 p. 451.
  5. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 7 p. 452.
  6. [S89] Family Search, FHL Number 761209+.
  7. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 1 p. 59.
  8. [S22] Rev. Jotham Sewall, A memoir of Rev. Jotham Sewall of Chesterville, Maine., p. 21.
  9. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "# 115195758."
  10. [S24] Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb, Early New England People, p. 226.
  11. [S46] Various contributors, Daughters of the American Revolution, Vol. 13 p. 226.
  12. [S205] Newspaper, Maine Cultivator and Hallowell Gazette, 13 September 1845.
  13. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 7 p. 453.
  14. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 7 p. 454.

Rev. Henry Sewall1,2

M, #10, b. 1614, d. 16 May 1700
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     Rev. Henry Sewall was born in 1614 in Manchester ? He was the son of Henry Sewall and Anne Hunt. Rev. Henry Sewall was christened on 25 June 1615 at Manchester Cathedral.3 He emigrated in 1634 "Sent by his father to New England 1634, with Net Cattel and Provisions sutable for a new Plantation, sailing on the Elizabeth and Dorcas. Mr Cotton would have had him settle in Boston; but in regard of his Cattel he chose to goe to Newbury, where his father soon followed him."4,5 He married Jane Dummer, daughter of Stephen Dummer and Alice Archer, on 25 March 1646 at Newbury, Essex County; the service being conducted by Richard Saltonstall.4,6 In 1647 he returned with his family, to England and three years later in 1650, he was presented to the living of North Baddesley in Hampshire.7 In 1658 or early 1659, and leaving his wife and children at Baddesley, Henry again sailed for Massachusetts carrying a letter from Richard Cromwell concerning the inheritance of his father's estate. Soon after his arrival he learned of Richard Cromwell's abdication, the restoration of the monarchy and the inevitable collapse of Puritan predominance. He summoned his family to New England.8 Rev. Henry Sewall died on 16 May 1700 in Newbury, Massachusetts, (Titcomb gives 16 March 1700.)9 He was buried on 18 May 1700 in the burying ground of the First Parish Church, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, the resting place is marked by an old stone, erected by their eldest son, Samuel Sewall, which bears the following inscription:      HENRY SEWELL SENT BY HENRY SEWELL HIS FATHER / IN THE SHIP ELIZABETH AND DORCAS, CAPT. WATT / COMMANDER / ARRIVED AT BOSTON 1634 / WINTERED AT IPSWICH, HELPED BEGIN THIS PLANTATION / 1635, FURNISHING ENGLISH SERVANTS, CATTLE AND PROVISIONS / MARRIED MISTRESS JANE DUMMER, MARCH 26, 1646 / DIED MAY 16. 1700 AETATIS 86. / HIS FRUITFUL VINE BEING THUS DISJOINED / FELL TO THE GROUND JANUARY 13 FOLLOWING, AETATIS 74. / Psalm 27. 10 /.10,9     

Children of Rev. Henry Sewall and Jane Dummer

Citations

  1. [S3] Nina Moore Tiffany, Samuel E. Sewell: a memoir, p.2.
  2. [S9] Carol Berkin, Jonathan Sewell, p.2.
  3. [S89] Family Search, The Registers of the cathedral church of Manchester (Lancashire). Axon, Ernest.
  4. [S25] Samuel Sewall, Diary of Samuel Sewall (1973 ed.), p. 1073.
  5. [S26] Hector Livingston Duff, Sewells in the New World, p.16.
  6. [S24] Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb, Early New England People, p. 215.
  7. [S26] Hector Livingston Duff, Sewells in the New World, p.20.
  8. [S26] Hector Livingston Duff, Sewells in the New World, p.22-23.
  9. [S365] Eben Graves, The descendants of Henry Sewall. Vol. II (Unpublished), #9.
  10. [S29] Henry Sewall Webster, Thomas Sewall, p.4.

Rev. Henry Sewall1

M, #755, b. 1772, d. 9 June 1850
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Descendants of Henry Sewell of Coventry
     Rev. Henry Sewall was born in 1772.2 He was the son of Henry Sewall and Mary Stinson.1 Rev. Henry Sewall married Esther Wheelwright Moody, daughter of Samuel Moody, on 5 October 1794 in Bath, Kennebec County, Maine. Rev. Henry Sewall was ordained on 7 October 1812 at Hebron, Oxford County, Maine.3,4 He died on 9 June 1850 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine.5,6 He was buried in Knowlton Mills Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine.6,7

Children of Rev. Henry Sewall and Esther Wheelwright Moody

Citations

  1. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
  2. [S62] William Richard Cutter, New England Families.
  3. [S22] Rev. Jotham Sewall, A memoir of Rev. Jotham Sewall of Chesterville, Maine., p. 199.
  4. [S205] Newspaper, Gazette, (Portland, ME), 26 October 1812


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    XV.
  5. [S205] Newspaper, Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, (Bangor, ME) Saturday, June 22, 1850.
  6. [S34] Unverified internet information, http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/me/… [August 2008].
  7. [S392] Website findagrave.com (http://www.findagrave.com/) "Memorial # 118177074."
  8. [S153] Charles Nelson Sinnett, Sinnett's Sewall genealogy, p. 21.
  9. [S34] Unverified internet information, http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/me/piscataquis/…
  10. [S265] Allyn Stanley Kellogg, Elder John White and his descendants, p. 120.