Jonathan Sewell Jr
BIRTH
Jun 6, 1766
Cambridge, Massachusetts, British America
DEATH
November 11, 1839
Quebec City, Province of Lower Canada
FAMILY
FATHER:
Jonathan Sewall
(1729-1796)
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Sewell, Jonathan
(1766-1839)
Jonathan Sewell (1766–1839) was associated with the American Revolutionary era as a lawyer, judge, spy. The biographical details in this entry are based on the record titled “Jonathan Sewell.”
Jonathan Sewell was born on Jun 6, 1766 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, British America. 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 Sewell with work or public activity as a lawyer, judge, spy. 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 Sewell died on Nov 11, 1839 in Quebec City, Province of Lower Canada. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.