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     Dr. John Gallison Sewall was born on 22 November 1822 in Watertown, Jefferson County, New York.^2,3 He was the son of Henry Devereaux Sewall and Mary Catherine Norton.¹ Dr. John Gallison Sewall graduated in 1847 from Harvard M.D. He married Joanna White Gannett, daughter of Thomas Brattle Gannett, on 23 January 1853.² Dr. John Gallison Sewall died on 18 January 1874 in New York City at the age of 51 (Sinnett gives 24 January 1874).^2,4

     John Henry Sewall was born on 24 March 1846 in York, Maine.¹ He was the son of Capt. Joseph Sewall and Eliza Jane Trafton.¹ John Henry Sewall died on 19 August 1847 in York, Maine, at the age of 1.¹

     John I. Sewall was born on 15 September 1905 in New York.^1,2 He was the son of Rev. Charles Grenville Sewall and Kate Louise Strong.¹ John I. Sewall died in April 1975 possibly in South Bristol, Lincoln County, Maine, at the age of 69.²

     John Jenks Sewall was born on 3 October 1817.² He was the son of James Sewall and Lucy Noyes.¹ John Jenks Sewall was baptised on 29 July 1818 at Bath, Maine.² He married Lois Anne Littebrant, daughter of Elmina A. Roe, on 26 February 1851 in Pike County, Illinois.² John Jenks Sewall died on 23 December 1868 in Barry, Illinois, at the age of 51.² He was buried in Barry Cemetery, Fairmount Township, Pike County, Illinois.³

     John Sewall Jr. was born on 13 September 1755 in York, Maine.¹ He was the son of Deacon John Sewall and Joanna Stone.¹ John Sewall Jr. married Eunice Grow, daughter of William Grow and Abigail Young, on 19 May 1791 in York, Maine.¹ John Sewall Jr. made a will on 10 February 1826 provided donations to the South Congregational Church in Hallowell, the First Parish Church in York, and the Bangor Theological Seminary and also mentioned real estate holdings in Hallowell, Bangor and Brunswick.¹ He died on 15 November 1827 in Hallowell at the age of 72.¹

     Rev. John Ladd Sewall was born on 27 April 1856 in Lunenburg, Vermont.¹ He was the son of Rev. William Sewall and Caroline Harrod Titcomb.¹ Rev. John Ladd Sewall graduated in 1877 from Dartmouth A.B. He married Catharine Mussey Hartwell on 31 October 1883 in Littleton the ceremony was performed by the Rev. N. Boynton assisted by the Rev. William Sewall.^2,3

     John Lentner Sewall. A mason.² He was born on 29 October 1830 in New York City.³ He was the son of Moses Sewall and Louisa Lentner.¹ John Lentner Sewall married Louisa Jane Bowman on 12 May 1857 in Boston, Massachusetts.⁴ John Lentner Sewall appears on the census of 1860 at Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, where John Sewall's occupation is shown as an upholsterer.⁵ He and Louisa Jane Bowman appear on the census of 11 June 1870 at Brunswick, Maine, his occupation is given as professor in college.⁶ John Lentner Sewall died on 29 November 1878 in Waltham, Massachusetts, at the age of 48.⁷

     John Lentner Sewall was born on 24 June 1886 in Waltham, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Benjamin Bowman Sewall and Dulcenia Harris.¹

     John Marrett Sewall was born on 2 September 1877 in Newton Center, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Samuel Brown Sewall and Louisa Elizabeth Farrington.¹ John Marrett Sewall married Edith May Bridge on 31 December 1903.² John Marrett Sewall and Edith May Bridge appear on the census of 1910 at Keene, New Hampshire, he is a teamster doing odd jobs.³

     John Milton Sewall. Farmer of Maine.² He was born on 30 July 1797 in Bath, Maine.² He was the son of Rev. Samuel M. Sewall and Mary Lambard.¹ John Milton Sewall married Dorcas Cushman, daughter of Isaiah Cushman Jr. and Sarah Ripley, on 30 November 1820 (intention Sumner 1 November 1820).^3,2 John Milton Sewall died on 15 January 1866 at the age of 68 from injuries received when he and his wife were thrown from a wagon when the horse bolted.^4,5

     John Milton Sewall was born on 28 September 1873.¹ He was the son of Dummer Sewall and Mary Savory Cook.¹

     John Milton Sewall was born on 10 September 1828 (Sinnett says 10 October 1827).^1,2 He was the son of John Milton Sewall and Dorcas Cushman.¹ John Milton Sewall married Ellen M. Dunham, daughter of Cornelius H. Dunham and Lucia Brett, on 29 May 1859.¹ On 21 September 1861 he entered military service as a Corporal in Company E 23 Mass. Volunteers and was discharged in April 1862; this would appear to be a prime example of the army discharging a dead soldier in order not to have to record the cause of death.³ John Milton Sewall died on 9 April 1862 in Newberne, North Carolina, at the age of 33 of typhoid fever.⁴

     John Mitchell Sewall was born in July 1862.¹ He was the son of Simon Merrill Sewall and Mary Wilson Sanford Mitchell.¹ John Mitchell Sewall was baptised on 31 January 1864 at Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine.¹ He died in September 1864. He was buried on 26 September 1864 in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine,, aged 2 years 2 months.¹

     John Mitchell Sewall was born on 13 October 1820 in Scarborough, Cumberland County, Maine.¹ He was the son of Stephen Sewall and Mary "Polly" Milliken.¹

     John Octavius Sewall was born on 14 March 1806.¹ He was the son of David Sewall and Hannah Barrell.¹ In 1839 of Shreveport, Louisiana, he was the first mayor. John Octavius Sewall died on 6 February 1840 in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, at the age of 33.²

     John S. Sewall was born on 17 January 1858.¹ He was the son of Dr. John Gallison Sewall and Joanna White Gannett.¹ John S. Sewall died on 21 January 1861 at the age of 3.¹

     John S. Sewall was born in 1862 in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine.¹ He was the son of Simon Merrill Sewall and Mary Wilson Sanford Mitchell.¹

     Prof. John Smith Sewall was born on 20 March 1830 in Newcastle, Maine.² He was the son of Rev. Jotham Sewall and Rachel Crosby Bradbury.¹ He was a In 1850, John Smith Sewall graduated from Bowdoin College, Portland, Maine. To pay off college debts, he enlisted in the United States Navy. After basic training, the Navy assigned him to the USS Saratoga as a captain's clerk. Sewall wrote that sea duty meant "two years of waltzing to and fro and flitting up and down the coast" making stops in Manila, the Madjicosima Islands, Macao, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. The Saratoga joined the East Asia Squadron and followed Commodore Perry to Japan in 1853-54, as one of the infamous "Black Ships."
Several years after returning to the United States, Sewall was ordained a Congregational minister. In 1859, he was appointed pastor in Wenham, Massachusetts, where he stayed until 1867. Sewall continued to serve the U.S. military as Chaplain to the 8th Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War
In the late 1860s, Sewall pursued a career in academia. From 1875 to 1903, he was a professor at his alma mater, Bowdoin. He finished his career at Bangor Theological Seminary as a professor of Homiletics, the art of preaching.
Half a century after his return from Japan, in 1905, Sewall wrote The Logbook of the Captain's Clerk: Adventures in the China Seas, to recount his experiences during the Japan expedition. He is also the author of a half dozen books and a number of essays ranging from theology to history.³ Prof. John Smith Sewall married Louisa B. Benson, daughter of Hon. Samuel Page Benson and Elizabeth Bodwell Mann, on 2 August 1858 in Winthrop, Kennebec, Maine.^4,5 Prof. John Smith Sewall died on 11 October 1911 in Bangor, Maine, at the age of 81. He was buried on 13 October 1911 in Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine,, lot Number, 3CG.⁶

      He was a merchant tailor from his death registration.² John Stinson Sewall was born in October 1824 in Bath, Maine.^3,4 He was the son of Stinson Sewall and Mary Whitmore.¹ John Stinson Sewall married Amanda N. Hoppin on 10 October 1850 in Boston, Massachusetts, they had four children, two were still living in 1900.^5,6 John Stinson Sewall died on 24 April 1906 in Melrose, Massachusetts, at the age of 81 of inflamation of the liver.²

     Jonathan Sewall was baptised on 28 May 1727 at Brattle Street, Boston.² He was the son of Jonathan/1 Sewall and Mary Payne.¹ Jonathan Sewall died young.

     Jonathan Sewall was baptised on 11 August 1728 died soon after.¹ He was the son of Jonathan/1 Sewall and Mary Payne.¹

     Jonathan Mitchell Sewall was baptised on 27 March 1748 at First Church of Salem, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Mitchell Sewall and Elizabeth Price. "A lawyer of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, popular in his own day as a verse-writer. His verse is for the most part forgotten, but his song, War and Washington, is yet remembered . . . ." (Oscar Fay Adams, A Dictionary of American Authors, 337 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899))

"Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell . . . lawyer and occasional poet, was born in Salem, Mass., and reared in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was a grand-nephew of Samuel Sewall the diarist. His parents died during his early childhood and he was adopted by a bachelor uncle, Stephen Sewall, chief justice of Massachusetts, who died when Jonathan was twelve years old. Young Sewall is reputed to have been a student at Harvard, although there are no official records of this or any other schooling. After clerking in a store, he studied law in a Portsmouth office, was admitted to the bar, and appointed register of probate for Grafton County, New Hampshire, but it is not known that he ever took office

He practiced law in Portsmouth until his death, and took a prominent part in the civic and literary life of the town. He became well-know as a Revolutionary War poet, and besides achieving a local reputation for appropriate epitaphs, composed a number of laudatory poems to Washington - notably, his Eulogy on the Late General Washington, published in 1800." (Stanley J. Kunitz & Howard Haycraft (eds.), American Authors 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature, 683 (New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1938))

Sewall studied law under Judge John Pickering of Portsmouth. He is reputed to have been "an extremely modest man", and many of his writings were printed anonymously. Principal among these anonymous productions are a Fourth of July oration, delivered in Portsmouth in 1788, and later printed at the request of the citizens (this was the first Independence Day oration delivered at Portsmouth); and The Versification of Washington Farewell Address, published in 1798. He wrote many epigrams, epilogues, and poems of a political cast, besides his patriotic lyrics. He also wrote paraphrases of Ossian and an Eulogy on George Washington, delivered at St. John's Church, Portsmouth, Dec. 31, 1799. His Miscellaneous Poems with Specimens from the Author's Manuscript Version of the Poems of Ossian, was published in 1801. He was a noted wit and much sought after for his social qualities. It is said that his last years were darkened by intemperance. In politics he was a federalist. Nothing can be learned of his immediate family, except that a daughter survived him

It is said that his talents became eclipsed and his days shortened by an appetite for drink.

Poetry:
Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, Verses occasioned by reading the answer of the president of the United-States, to the House of Representatives, requesting certain papers relative to the treaty with Great-Britain (Boston: (s.n.): Printed in the year 1797)

___________________, A versification of President Washington's excellent farewell-address, to the citizens of the United States (Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Printed and sold by Charles Peirce, at the Columbian bookstore, no.5, Daniel-Street, 1798)

__________________, Eulogy on the Late General Washington (Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Printed by William Treadwell, 1800) ("pronounced at St. John's Church, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Tuesday, 31st December, 1799. At the request of the inhabitants") (28 pp.)

__________________, Miscellaneous Poems: With several specimens from the author's manuscript version of the Poems of Ossian (Portsmouth: William Treadwell, & Co., 1801)

Songs:
Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, "Gen. Washington: a new favourite song, at the American camp: To the tune of the British grenadiers (United States: s.n., 1776?) (1 sheet) ("A New song: to the tune of "British grenadiers." Boston: Sold (by Thomas and John Fleet) at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill, (1776)) (1 broadside)("A favorite song at the Columbian Camp, in the late glorious and victorious struggle for liberty," Printed and sold at the Printing Office in Salem: by Ezekiel Russell, 1776) (broadside)

___________________, "Songs for the celebration of American independence, 1806," (1806) (1 sheet)

Oration:
Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, An Oration, delivered at Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, on the fourth of Uly, 1788: being the anniversary of American independence. / By one of the inhabitants (Portsmouth (New Hampshire.): Printed by George Jerry Osborne, for the subscribers, 1788)

Writings:
Jonathan Mitchell Sewall, A Parody on Some of the Most Striking Passages in a Late Pamphlet, entitled "A letter to a Federalist" (Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Printed at the Oracle Press, 1805) (Vernon H. Quincey, esq. (pseud.))

Bibliography:
A.M. Payson & A. Laighton, "The Poets of Portsmouth," Port Folio (June 25, 1808).


Jonathan Mitchell Sewall married firstly Sarah Wood on 14 November 1774 in Haverhill, New Hampshire.² Jonathan Mitchell Sewall married secondly Sarah March.³ Jonathan Mitchell Sewall appears on the census of 1790 at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with one boy under sixteen and five females.⁴ He died on 29 March 1808 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, at the age of 60.²

     Jonathan Mitchell Sewall married (unknown) Miller.² Jonathan Mitchell Sewall was baptised on 11 April 1779 at Manchester, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Stephen Sewall and Abigail "Nabby" Lee.¹

     Jonathan Mitchell Sewall was baptised on 19 May 1778 at Trinity Church, Boston.¹ He was the son of Jonathan Mitchell Sewall and Sarah March.¹

     Jonathan/1 Sewall. Merchant and a coroner for the county of Suffolk. He. Held office in 1718 Artillery Company; 1720 Clerk, Artillery Company; 1726 1st sergeant, Artillery Company as well as various town offices.¹ He was born on 7 February 1692/93 in Salem, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Major Stephen Sewall and Margaret Mitchell. Jonathan/1 Sewall was baptised on 12 February 1693/94.³ He married firstly Elizabeth Alford, daughter of Colonel Benjamin Alford and Mary Richards, on 17 December 1718 at Boston, Massachusetts; The Rev. Benjamin Colman officiated.^4,1,5 Jonathan/1 Sewall married secondly Mary Payne, daughter of William Payne and Mary Taylor, on 8 October 1724 at Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Benjamin Colman officiated.^4,5 Jonathan/1 Sewall died on 21 November 1731 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 38.⁶

     Joseph Sewall was born on 13 July 1719.² He was the son of Rev. Dr. Joseph Sewall and Elizabeth Walley.¹ Joseph Sewall died on 18 August 1719.²

     Joseph Sewall was born on 7 July 1794.¹ He was the son of Hon. Joseph Sewall and Mary Robie. Joseph Sewall died on 2 September 1797 at the age of 3.¹

     Joseph Sewall was born on 24 December 1797.² He was the son of Hon. Joseph Sewall and Mary Robie.¹ Joseph Sewall died on 20 September 1800 at the age of 2.²

     Joseph Sewall was born on 7 June 1773 in York, Maine.² He was the son of Capt. Joseph Sewall and Mercy Sewall.¹ Joseph Sewall was baptised on 13 June 1773.³ He married Abigail H. Gray on 22 September 1810 in Newbury, Massachusetts, (however Vital records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 give the date of marriage intention as Sept. 27, 1810).^2,4 Joseph Sewall died on 18 December 1859 in York, Maine, at the age of 86.²

     Joseph Sewall was born on 17 December 1770 in Bath, Maine.^2,3 He was the son of Colonel Dummer Sewall and Mary Dunning.¹ Joseph Sewall was baptised on 7 July 1771.² He was a carpenter and builder in his early life and then engaged as an owner and builder in navigation at Hunnewell's Point, Maine which is now Popham Beach, where he resided for several years. He occupied what is known as the " White House", a conspicuous building, which was always painted white. He was a man of magisterial prominence, presiding at town meetings, and was a ready speaker. In 1816 he removed to Farmington, Maine where the remainder of his life was spent in farming. "He was a gentleman of the Old School, of a strong personality, and of great integrity of character, traits which were prominent in all the Sewalls."

A contract for the removal of Joseph Sewall to Farmington, reads "Farmington, Maine, April 23, 1816. This day Nathan Bacchus and Joseph Sewall agree that the said Nathan shall convey in his stagecoach the family of the said Joseph Sewall, consisting of three grown females, and three children together with 250 pounds of baggage from Hallowell, Maine to Farmington, Maine via the house of Elizabeth Luce, for the sum of nine dollars. The said Sewall shall be with his family at Hallowell Maine as soon as may be after the first Monday of May, next, and the said Nathan shall take him there as aforesaid on the Saturday morning following."

Joseph Sewall cleared his farm at Farmington and erected good buildings thereon.

Other accounts simply describe him as a shipbuilder in Bath who lost all his property in the embargo and war of 1812.³
He married firstly Lydia Marsh, daughter of Thomas Marsh and Sarah Stoddard, on 28 September 1794 at Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.⁴ Joseph Sewall married secondly Hannah Shaw, daughter of Major Joshua Shaw and Mary Couillard, on 14 December 1806 at Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.^2,5,4 Joseph Sewall married thridly Catherine Jones Shaw, daughter of Major Joshua Shaw, on 23 June 1839 at Farmington, Maine.^6,7 Joseph Sewall died on 3 November 1851 in Farmington, Maine, at the age of 80.² He was buried in Sewall cemetery, Farmington, Maine.⁸