Esther Quincy Sewall
(1738-1810)
BIRTH
November 26, 1738
PLACE
Braintree, Province of Massachusetts Bay
NAME
Esther Quincy
DEATH
January 21, 1810
PLACE
Montreal, Bas-Canada
FAMILY
FATHER
Edmund Quincy
(1703-1788)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Wendell
(1704-1769)
HUSBAND
Jonathan Sewall
(1729-1796)
CHILDREN
Jonathan Sewell
(1766-1839)
CHILDREN
Stephen Sewell
(1770-1832)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Esther Quincy Sewall (1738–1810) married Massachusetts attorney general Jonathan Sewall in 1764. During the 1774 Powder Alarm she confronted a crowd at her Cambridge home, pleading for her children’s safety. The household then fled to Boston, Nova Scotia and England. Although her husband remained a Loyalist, she maintained connections with Patriot relatives and Abigail Adams. The family returned to Canada in the 1780s; widowed in 1796, she lived in Montreal until her death.
EARLY LIFE
The external genealogical record identifies Edmund Quincy and Elizabeth Wendell as the parents. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up.
No distinct public profession or office for Esther Sewall is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Esther Sewall died on Jan 21, 1810, in Montreal, Bas-Canada. Esther Quincy Sewall married Massachusetts attorney general Jonathan Sewall in 1764. During the 1774 Powder Alarm she confronted a crowd at her Cambridge home, pleading for her children’s safety. The household then fled to Boston, Nova Scotia and England. Although her husband remained a Loyalist, she maintained connections with Patriot relatives and Abigail Adams. The family returned to Canada in the 1780s; widowed in 1796, she lived in Montreal until her death. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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