Jonathan Sewall
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Jonathan Sewall, Jr. | |
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| Attorney General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay | |
| In office November 1767 – 1775 | |
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| Born | August 24, 1729 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | September 27, 1796 (aged 67) Saint John, New Brunswick |
| Spouse | Esther Quincy |
| Children | Jonathan Sewell, Chief-Justice of Lower Canada. Stephen Sewell, Solicitor General of Lower Canada |
| Profession | Attorney |
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Jonathan Sewall (August 24, 1729 – September 27, 1796) was the last Colonial attorney general of Massachusetts.
He was born in
Charlestown and served as attorney general of Massachusetts from 1767 to 1775. In 1768 he was also appointed Judge of Admiralty for Nova Scotia.[2]
In 1759 Sewall became a very close friend and patron of
Court of St. James's
in 1785, he looked up his old friend and they had a two-hour meeting. Both men were entrenched in their own ideas and no reconciliation was possible; Adams considered Sewall a casualty of the war.
Sewall later served as a judge in the Vice Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia. He died in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1796.
His son Jonathan later served as Chief Justice of Lower Canada and his son Stephen served as solicitor general for Lower Canada.
In popular culture
Sewall was portrayed by James Noble in the PBS miniseries The Adams Chronicles (1976), and by Guy Henry in the HBO miniseries John Adams (2008).
References
- ^ ISBN 0-674-61251-5
- ^ Stark, James Henry (1910). The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution. Salem Press. pp. 455. Retrieved March 20, 2008.
Bibliography
- Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Loyalist, Carol Berkin. Columbia University Press (1974) ISBN 0-595-00020-7
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