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     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

     Hannah Sewall was born on 2 September 1751 in Brookline, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Henry Sewall and Ann White. Hannah Sewall married Edward Kitchin Wolcott, son of Josiah Wolcott and Isabella Campbell, in 1776 in Brookline, Massachusetts.² Hannah Sewall died on 21 August 1832 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, at the age of 80 another source gives her death occurring at her daughter's house (Ann Ridgeway), Rochester, Massachusetts.^3,4

      Of Brookline, Massachusetts.³ Edward Kitchin Wolcott was born on 30 April 1754.¹ He was the son of Josiah Wolcott and Isabella Campbell.^1,2 Edward Kitchin Wolcott married Hannah Sewall, daughter of Henry Sewall and Ann White, in 1776 in Brookline, Massachusetts.² Edward Kitchin Wolcott died on 11 September 1815 at the age of 61.⁴

     Ann Wolcott was born on 4 December 1777 (4 September 1778 - Diary).^2,3 She was the daughter of Edward Kitchin Wolcott and Hannah Sewall. Ann Wolcott married Philip Reynolds Ridgeway on 6 December 1801 in Newton, Massachusetts, a date of 7 November 1801 is recorded, which may be the date of the intention.^4,5

     Philip Reynolds Ridgeway was baptised on 6 April 1777.² He married Ann Wolcott, daughter of Edward Kitchin Wolcott and Hannah Sewall, on 6 December 1801 in Newton, Massachusetts, a date of 7 November 1801 is recorded, which may be the date of the intention.^3,4 Philip Reynolds Ridgeway died in June 1820 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 43.⁵

     Elizabeth Sewall was born on 12 March 1750. She was the daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy. Elizabeth Sewall married Deacon Samuel S. Salisbury, son of Nicholas Salisbury and Martha Salisbury, on 29 September 1768 in Boston (or 17 Sept 1768 according to McKeough. Thwing records the marriage intention as 1 Sep. 1768).^1,2 Elizabeth Sewall died on 25 March 1789 at the age of 39.

     Deacon Samuel S. Salisbury was the son of Nicholas Salisbury and Martha Salisbury.^2,3 Deacon Samuel S. Salisbury married Elizabeth Sewall, daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy, on 29 September 1768 in Boston (or 17 Sept 1768 according to McKeough. Thwing records the marriage intention as 1 Sep. 1768).^3,4 Deacon Samuel S. Salisbury was living in Boston. He died on 2 May 1818.⁴

     Hannah Sewall was born on 15 March 1753. She was the daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy. Hannah Sewall married James Hill on 26 January 1772 in Sharon, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. Hannah Sewall died on 24 July 1827 at the age of 74 (or 4 July according to the Samuel Sewall tree).¹

     James Hill was born in 1744 calculated from age at death.¹ He married Hannah Sewall, daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy, on 26 January 1772 in Sharon, Norfolk County, Massachusetts. James Hill died on 19 June 1824.¹

     Sarah Sewall was born on 14 January 1756.¹ She was the daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy. Sarah Sewall died on 14 September 1780 in Cambridge at the age of 24 unmarried.²

     Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. was born on 11 December 1757 in Boston, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy. Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. graduated in 1776 from Harvard A.B., A.M., 1779 and practised law in his home town of Marblehead. He was a Representative in the State Legislature for several terms and a Representative from Massachusetts in the 5th and 6th Congresses, 1797-1801. He was a member of the Electoral College of 1801 from the 2nd Massachusetts district. The honourary degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Harvard in 1808. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.¹ He married Abigail Devereaux, daughter of Dr. Humphrey Devereaux and Anna Henchman, on 8 December 1781. Between 1801 and 1813 he was a a Judge of the Supreme Court.¹ Between 1813 and 1814 he was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts.¹ Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. died on 8 June 1814 in Wiscassett, Maine, at the age of 56 said to have been whilst sitting in court, however an article in the Boston Gazette says he was seized of a severe pain in his chest in the morning and died at 9 in the evening.² He was buried in the ancient cemetery at Wiscasset but later re-interred in the family tomb at Marblehead.³

     Abigail Devereaux was born on 17 June 1766 in Marblehead, Massachusetts.² She was the daughter of Dr. Humphrey Devereaux and Anna Henchman.^1,2 Abigail Devereaux married Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D., son of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy, on 8 December 1781. Abigail Devereaux died on 22 February 1847 in Boston at the age of 80 at the home of Thomas R. Sewall.³

     Dorothy Sewall is also recorded as Dolly Sewall.¹ She was born on 23 December 1758. She was the daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy. Dorothy Sewall married Colonel Joseph May, son of Samuel May and Abigail Williams, on 28 December 1784 in Boston, Massachusetts.^2,3 Dorothy Sewall died on 31 October 1825 at the age of 66.

      A merchant.² Colonel Joseph May was born on 25 March 1760 in Boston.³ He was the son of Samuel May and Abigail Williams.¹ Colonel Joseph May married Dorothy Sewall, daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy, on 28 December 1784 in Boston, Massachusetts.^3,4 Colonel Joseph May died on 27 February 1841 in Boston at the age of 80.³

     Abigail May was born on 8 October 1800 in Boston, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall. Abigail May married Amos Bronson Alcott on 23 May 1830 in King's Chapel, Boston.² Between 1832 and 1834 Abigail May was living in Germantown, Pennsylvania.³ In 1834 Abigail May was living in Boston.³ In 1840 Abigail May was living in Concord.³ She died on 25 November 1877 in Concord, Massachusetts, at the age of 77 of dropsy.⁴

     Amos Bronson Alcott was born on 29 November 1799 in Wolcott, Connecticut.¹ He married Abigail May, daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall, on 23 May 1830 in King's Chapel, Boston.² Amos Bronson Alcott died on 4 March 1888 in 10 Louisburg Square, Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 88.³ "He achieved what was probably his greatest success in life by marrying Miss Abby May." All reports concur in extolling her patience, endurance, and placid good nature under much privation and serious perplexity. She reflected Mr. Alcott's own beautiful spirit, and their home, however humble, was a very happy and attractive one. For about three years after his marriage Mr. Alcott endeavored to establish a school in Germantown, Pa. It was in this place that his daughter, Louisa May, was born. Not meeting with the success he desired, Mr. Alcott returned to Boston with his family and undertook a school in the old Masonic Temple in Tremont street. He had as his assistants Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth P. Peabody. The school had a wide reputation, and for several years good success, but finally lost caste and failed. His views, as set forth in Conversation with Children on the Gospels, published 1836, induced some of his patrons to remove their children from his school, and others were seriously annoyed when he received a coloured girl as a pupil. A second time the school was closed, and Mr. Alcott removed to Concord, Mass., at the instigation of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Mr. Alcott pursued his studies in reform, in social economics, and in theology, getting a very humble living by lectures and conversations. Mr. Emerson said of him: "I think he has more faith in the ideal than any man I have known;" and his daughter, in her grand way, referring to his reputation, and knowing the close poverty his home had witnessed, gave the definition of a philosopher as, "A man in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth, and trying to haul him down." Mr. Alcott visited England in 1842 at the invitation of James P. Greaves of London, an educational theorist and friend of Pestalozzi. Mr. Greaves died before his arrival, but he was cordially received by his friends, and on his return was accompanied by two of these, Charles Lane and H. G. Wright. These gentlemen, impressed with Mr. Alcott's enthusiasm, went with him to Harvard, Mass., where Mr. Lane purchased a farm, which was called "Fruit-lands." Here it was proposed to gather a community that should live in the region of high thought on a vegetable diet. The farm was sold. His English friends returned home, and Mr. Alcott went back to Concord. Here he remained, eeking out an often-times scanty living by lectures and conversations in public halls or private homes throughout the country. The topics he presented were largely of a transcendental character, although including a wide range of purely practical questions. It was with difficulty that Mr. Alcott could write. Emerson said of him: "When he sits down to write, all his genius leaves him - he gives you the shells and throws away the kernel of his thought." In fact, his first book, Tablets, was published in 1868, and 1839-42 he contributed frequently to the Dial in a series of papers called Orphic Sayings. He was, withal, brave. When Garrison was dragged through Boston streets, Alcott was close beside him, and when one remonstrated, said, "I do not see why my body is not as fit for a bullet as any other." His publications include: Concord Days (1872); Table Talk (1877); New Connecticut (1881); Sonnets and Canzonets (1882); Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882).

     Rev. Samuel Joseph May was born on 12 September 1797 in Boston, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall.³ Rev. Samuel Joseph May married Lucretia Flagge Coffin, daughter of Peter Coffin and Anne Martin, on 1 June 1825.² He graduated from Harvard, A.B., 1817, A.M. and B.D., 1820. He was ordained to the Unitarian ministry, March 14, 1822 at Boston, Mass., and became pastor of the First Ecclesiastical Society of Brooklyn, Conn., March 17, 1822. In January, 1823, he established The Liberal Christian, in whose pages he made explicit statements of Unitarian doctrine. He wrote and preached as an advocate of total abstinence and in opposition to slavery as early as 1826; was burned in effigy at Syracuse, N.Y., in 1830, and was mobbed several times at Rutland and Montpelier, Vt., and at Haverhill, Mass. He was a member of the first New England anti-slavery society in 1832, and in 1833 befriended Prudence Crandall. He helped to organize a National Antislavery society in Philadelphia in 1833 and signed the "Declaration of Sentiments." He was general agent of the Massachusetts Anti-slavery society, 1835-53. He was pastor of the Unitarian church at South Scituate, Mass., 1836-42; was principal of the Girls' Normal School, Lexington, Mass., 1842-44; pastor at Syracuse, N.Y., 1845-67, and did missionary work in central New York, 1867-71. He did much to improve the public-school system of Syracuse, and was president of the board of education of that city at the time of his death. He is the author of: Education of the Faculties (1846); Revival of Education (1855); and Recollections of the Anti-Slavery Conflict (1868). G.B. Emerson, Samuel May, and T. J. Mumford edited: Memoir of Samuel Joseph May (1873).² Rev. Samuel Joseph May died on 1 July 1871 in Syracuse, New York, at the age of 73 sometime after 10pm when he was taken very ill.^2,4 He was buried on 6 July 1871 in Oakwood Cemetery.⁵

     Katherine Sewall was born on 5 June 1760. She was the daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy. Katherine Sewall married Henry Gallison, son of Col. John Gallison and Eunice Bourne, on 24 May 1787 in Marblehead.^1,2 Katherine Sewall died on 24 October 1788 in Marblehead at the age of 28 She died a few hours after giving birth.³

     Henry Gallison was born on 2 December 1759. He was the son of Col. John Gallison and Eunice Bourne. Henry Gallison graduated in 1778 from Harvard.¹ He married firstly Katherine Sewall, daughter of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy, on 24 May 1787 in Marblehead.^2,3 Henry Gallison married Betsey Lewis on 27 April 1806 there were three children of this marriage.³ Henry Gallison died on 8 January 1825 at the age of 65 of dyspepsia.

     Hon. Joseph Sewall was born on 9 March 1762 in Boston (c. 3 April 1762 calculated from his age at death).² He was the son of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy. Hon. Joseph Sewall was educated at Dummer Academy, Newbury.³ He married Mary Robie, daughter of Thomas Robie and Mary Bradstreet, on 21 September 1788 in Marblehead.⁴ He was a Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.³ Hon. Joseph Sewall died on 5 May 1850 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 88.⁵

     Mary Robie was born circa 1764 in Marblehead, Massachusetts.^1,2 She was the daughter of Thomas Robie and Mary Bradstreet. Mary Robie married Hon. Joseph Sewall, son of Samuel Sewall and Elizabeth Quincy, on 21 September 1788 in Marblehead.³ Mary Robie died on 23 July 1834 in Boston, Massachusetts.

     Thomas Robie was baptised on 26 April 1730 having been born posthumously.² He was a A merchant of Marblehead, Massachusetts. As a Loyalist he went first to Halifax, and thence to England, but returned to the United States.³ He was the son of Thomas Robie and Mehitable Sewall.¹ Thomas Robie married Mary Bradstreet, daughter of Rev. Simon Bradstreet 3rd and Mary (Unknown) widow Hills. Thomas Robie died in 1811 in Salem.⁴

     Rev. Samuel Sewall was born on 1 June 1785 in Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts.^1,2,3 He was the son of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux. The Rev. Samuel Sewall, graduated from Harvard in the class of 1804 and went on to study divinity. He was ordained Deacon in the Episcopal Church at New York, and officiated there for about a year. He renounced his connection with that church, and was subsequently ordained pastor of the Congregational Church in Burlington, Mass., April 13th, 1814. Dr. Henry Ware, Senior, preached the sermon; Rev. Dr. Holmes, of Cambridge, made the ordaining prayer, and Rev. President Kirkland gave the charge to the pastor. That was just previous to the separation of the Trinitarian ministers and churches in the commonwealth of Massachusetts from the Unitarian; and it may be proper to mention a fact, which occurred at Mr. Sewall's ordination, as it illustrates the manners and customs of that day. The council adopted the rule, that, in the examination of the candidate, each member of the council might ask the candidate three questions, provided they were approved by the council. The Rev. Samuel Stearns, of Bedford, who was one of the few Orthodox members of the council, inquired if he might ask the candidate this question: "Do you believe that the punishment of the wicked in the future world will continue as long as the happiness of the righteous ? " And the council decided, that it was a question which was not proper to be put! Mr. Sewall left the Episcopal Church because he could not adhere to the Thirty Nine Articles, and when he was ordained at Burlington his theological views were indefinite and undetermined, but during the latter half of his ministry he became decidedly evangelical, and he always had a large share of that charity for others which "hopeth all things."

It is an interesting fact, that Mr. Sewall lived and died in the parsonage which had been occupied as such by his two predecessors, the Rev. Thomas Jones and the Rev. John Marrett, and the entire ministry of these three men covered a, period of more than 107 years. It is another interesting fact, that Mr. Marrett married the daughter of his predecessor, Mr. Jones, and that Mr. Sewall married the daughter of his predecessor, Mr. Marrett. Another coincidence is that Mr. Marrett died on the same month and the same day of the month as Father Sewall, namely, 18th February 1813. Mr. Sewall was pastor of the church in Burlington for twenty-eight years. He was dismissed from his pastoral charge in 1842. Since that time be supplied the church in North Woburn for a further six years. He preached his last sermon in Carlisle, 11th August 1867, and performed his last public service on 19th December 1867, at the ordination of his successor in Burlington, Rev. Mr. Hudson, when he offered the ordaining prayer.

Father Sewall, as he has for many years been deferentially called, was a gentleman of the old school, of affable and accomplished manners, and was one of the few remaining links which connected the active habits of the present generation with the quiet habits of the past. He was a man of great conscientiousness, and of remarkably consistent deportment. He was distinguished as a scholar, especially in the ecclesiastical history of New-England, and his judgment upon any point in the polity of the Congregational churches was entitled to great respect. He prepared and published in the American Quarterly Register for 1839, 1840, and 1841, several articles relating to the ministers and churches in the county of Middlesex, which indicate great breadth of research and accuracy of statement. But the most elaborate literary work of his life is his History of Woburn, which he lived to complete, but did not live to see published. It will long remain a monument of indefatigable labour, and may be depended on for its correctness. Sewall was one of the earliest members of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society having been elected 12th June 1845.⁴ Rev. Samuel Sewall married Martha Margaret Marrett, daughter of Rev. John Marrett and Martha Jones, on 1 January 1818 in Burlington, Massachusetts.⁵ Rev. Samuel Sewall died on 18 February 1868 in Burlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at the age of 82 of old age.^6,7,3

     Martha Margaret Marrett was born on 2 November 1783 in Burlington, Massachusetts.³ She was the daughter of Rev. John Marrett and Martha Jones.² Martha Margaret Marrett was also "little Patty" by her father.⁴ She married Rev. Samuel Sewall, son of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux, on 1 January 1818 in Burlington, Massachusetts.⁵ Martha Margaret Marrett died on 26 March 1860 in Burlington, Massachusetts, at the age of 76 of mortification of the leg and foot. She had suffered from an ulcerated leg for seventeen years.^6,7

     Henry Devereaux Sewall was born on 21 August 1786 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He was the son of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux. Henry Devereaux Sewall married Mary Catherine Norton, daughter of Birdsey Norton, on 22 January 1816 in Bloomfield, New Jersey, In the wedding announcement the groom is described as being of the house of Hurd & Sewall, New York.^2,3 Henry Devereaux Sewall died on 8 June 1846 in Watertown, New York, at the age of 59.^4,5
At the age of 18 he started as a clerk in the counting house, in Boston, of his uncle, Joseph Sewall, the head of the house of Sewall, Salisbury & Co., then the principal dry goods importing and jobbing firm in New England. In 1807 the firm detailed their clerks, Henry Devereux Sewall and Arthur Tappan, the latter a brother of the junior partner in the firm, to go to Portland, in the district of Maine, and open a branch store under the firm name of Tappan & Sewall; but after doing business in Portland for two years they became discouraged by the ill effects produced by Jefferson's embargo, and in 1809 transferred the mercantile establishment to Montreal. There they were quite successful. Merchants and traders in Central and Northern New York were at that time among the principal customers of the Canadian capital city. It was there that Mr. Sewall formed acquaintanceships with Watertown merchants that shaped his course later in his career. The War of 1812 coming on, all Americans residing in Canada were required either to swear allegiance to the British Crown or to quit the country. Being patriots, and the descendants of patriots, the young traders chose the latter alternative, although to the ruin of their business, and in 1813 broke up their establishment. Mr. Tappan went directly to New York, becoming afterwards the leading dry goods merchant in that city, and a distinguished philanthropist. Mr. Sewall devoted his attention to the settling of matters of the late firm, and the collection of their outstanding debts.

Mr. Sewall's father dying in 1814 he spent a considerable part of that year in settling the estate, and early in 1815 established himself in New York in the foreign shipping and commission business, in partnership with John R. Hurd. This business proving but moderately remunerative, Mr. Hurd accepted an offer in 1823 to take the presidency of a marine insurance company in New York, and Mr. Sewall, under the advice of his uncle Joseph, the merchant in Boston, undertook a commission agency in New York in partnership with Edmund Q. Sewall, a son of Joseph, for the sale of domestic goods in connection with the foreign commission business. Joseph Sewall at that time had the agency in Boston of most of the few manufactories of cotton and woolen goods in New England, and through his intervention the firm of H. D. & E. Q. Sewall became the first in New York to undertake a similar agency in the latter market. It was thus that Mr. Sewall established an intercourse with Gilbert & Sigourney, the managers of the cotton factory at Watertown, and the latter concern becoming largely indebted to the New York house, the larger part of this indebtedness was finally transferred to property in and about Watertown.

In the financial crash of 1827 Mr. Sewall's firm in Boston, being compelled to succumb, carried down with them the house in New York of H. D. & E. Q. Sewall; and the junior partner, in the latter, dying, and the outlook for future business in New York seeming discouraging, Mr. Sewall concluded to remove with his family to Watertown, and managed the property there acquired through the intercourse with Gilbert & Sigourney, which firm also had been compelled by the extreme financial pressure of the time to withdraw from active business. He had likewise a view to the further extension of manufacturing at Watertown, and had always nourished a preference for a country life. Mr. Sewall, with the valuable assistance of those excellent men, well known to old citizens of Watertown, John Sigourney and Josiah W. Baker, carried on the old cotton factory and store from 1829 to 1834, when, the charter expiring, the factory and appurtenances were sold. In 1828-29 he constructed the dam on the Black River at the upper end of his island, built his residence on the island, then a beautiful spot, constructed or bought and afterwards sold a saw-mill and a tannery on the north side of the north branch, opposite the island, a paper mill and a machine shop on the lower point of the island on the north branch, a flouring-mill on the main branch, south side, just below the island, an extensive saw-mill at Dexter all between 1829 and I833; and in I834, with the assistance of New York and Boston capital, he erected an extensive woolen factory on the south side of the river opposite the island, and in 1834 to '35 and '36 built several brick stores on the east side of Factory Square, as well as a number of dwelling houses on Factory street, and in the neighborhood of the woolen-mills; and during the same period contributed largely to the erection of the first academy in the village (of which the late Judge Mullin was the first principal), and in 1832-33 furnished the greater part of the means for and himself attended to the construction and fitting up of the first Episcopal Church in the village, the predecessor of the present church on Court street. Later he built another flouring mill, below the woolen factory. Mr. Sewall, in connection with Merrill Coburn held, in 1833 the contract for furnishing the ties and sleepers for the Utica & Schenectady Railroad, the first railroad in the state of any length (the only previous ones being the short Mohawk & Hudson, and the Harlem, not going north of Harlem at that time) and, to carry out the contract, put up the extensive saw-mills at Dexter, and, as the sleepers were required to be of yellow pine, the contractors secured all there was of that timber along the Black River. The flood of 1833 swept all the logs into the lake at heavy loss to the contractors. From 1835 to 1843 Mr. Sewall was chiefly occupied with the business of the woolen factory, which, partly from want of sufficient skill in the manufacture of the fine goods for which the works were designed, partly from insufficiency of funds, and partly from the reduction of the tariff, did not prove ultimately profitable.

In the early spring of 1843 Mr. Sewall was badly injured by the upsetting of the Utica stage coach while on a journey to the eastward, from which time his health failed, and his business career practically closed, his death in June, 1846, being caused by the paralysis resulting from the injury.

     Mary Catherine Norton was born in 1789 in Connecticut.² She was the daughter of Birdsey Norton.² Mary Catherine Norton married Henry Devereaux Sewall, son of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux, on 22 January 1816 in Bloomfield, New Jersey, In the wedding announcement the groom is described as being of the house of Hurd & Sewall, New York.^3,4 Mary Catherine Norton died on 30 December 1840 in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York.^5,6

     Lydia Maria Sewall was born on 14 April 1791. She was the daughter of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux. Lydia Maria Sewall married Deacon Samuel Greele, son of Samuel Greele and Olive Read, on 3 May 1812 in Marblehead the service was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Eliot.
(Vital Records incorrectly give 3 May 1881).^1,2,3 Lydia Maria Sewall died on 11 August 1822 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 31 s.p.¹

     Deacon Samuel Greele was born on 3 July 1783 in Wilton, New Hampshire.¹ He was the son of Samuel Greele and Olive Read.¹ Deacon Samuel Greele graduated in 1802 from Harvard. He was a fitted for college at the Academy in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. After graduating he studied divinity with Rev. Jonathan French of Andover, Mass. He preached for several years, but was never ordained as a minister over any society, and he resigned the sacred profession much against his will on account of temporary ill health. He then became a devoted and useful teacher. He was for some time Preceptor of an Academy in Marblehead, he then removed to Boston, where he taught in a private school from 1818 to 1821. In 1825 he entered into partnership with John Baker, under the firm of Baker & Greele, in the business of manufacturing printing types. This firm was dissolved in 1827, and the next year Mr. Greele took into partnership Mr. Henry Willis, and they continued the business under the firm or Greele & Willis until 1832, when Mr. Greele retired from active business. He was a devoted member of various charitable and benevolent institutions. He was an officiating Deacon in the Federal Street Church for nearly fifty years, first under the ministry of Rev. Dr. Channing and subsequently under Rev. Dr. Gannett. His steady and sincere adherence to the Liberal faith through all the fluctuations of time and opinion was remarkable. He was a faithful worker in the American Unitarian Association. He was elected a Representative from Boston to the State Legislature in 1838, 1840, 1841, 1842 and 1843. He was a member of the Board of Aldermen in Boston in 1834,1835 and 1836.²
He married firstly Lydia Maria Sewall, daughter of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux, on 3 May 1812 in Marblehead the service was conducted by the Rev. Dr. Eliot.
(Vital Records incorrectly give 3 May 1881).^3,4,5 Deacon Samuel Greele married secondly Louisa May, daughter of Colonel Joseph May and Dorothy Sewall, on 19 October 1823 in Boston they has a son and a daughter.¹ Deacon Samuel Greele married thirdly Maria Antoinette Paine, daughter of Hon. Robert Treat Paine and Sally Cobb, on 18 October 1831. Deacon Samuel Greele married fourthly Sarah Follansbee Emerson on 8 October 1844 in Newburyport.¹ Deacon Samuel Greele died on 16 August 1861 in Swampscott, Massachusetts, at the age of 78 where he had gone to pass the summer months.^3,1

     Anne Henchman Sewall was born on 18 March 1793. She was the daughter of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux. Anne Henchman Sewall died on 6 February 1848 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 54 at the residence of T.R. Sewall. She was unmarried.²

     Joseph Henchman Sewall was born on 6 February 1795. He was the son of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall LL.D. and Abigail Devereaux. Joseph Henchman Sewall died on 26 September 1813 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 18 of consumption whilst still an undergraduate at Harvard.^2,3,4