Jonathan Sewall
BIRTH
Aug 24, 1729
Boston, Massachusetts
DEATH
September 27, 1796
Saint John, New Brunswick
FAMILY
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Sewall, Jonathan
(1729-1796)
Jonathan Sewall was a Massachusetts lawyer, colonial attorney general, and prominent Loyalist. A longtime friend of John Adams, he defended royal authority during the imperial crisis and left Massachusetts after the outbreak of the Revolution.
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Jonathan Sewell Jr
(1766-1839)
Stephen Sewell
(1770-1832)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Boston Common | 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111 | PARK |
DIED:
Saint John, New Brunswick
Sep 27, 1796
Jonathan Sewall was born on Aug 24, 1729 in Boston, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Jonathan Sewall with work or public activity as a lawyer, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Jonathan Sewall died on Sep 27, 1796 in Saint John, New Brunswick. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.