Ancestry of
Louisa May Alcott

Author of Little Women

Samuel Sewall

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Louisa May Alcott — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 56 
  • Father:
  • Henry Sewall 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Dummer   
  • Birth Date:
  • 28 Mar 1652 
  • Birth Location:
  • Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jan 1730 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Hull
  • Marriage Date:
  • 28 Feb 1675/1676 
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  • Child:

  Joseph Sewall (Ahnentafel No:28 )

  • Notes: 
  • Samuel was appointed Chief Justice of Massachusetts in 1717. He was famous for being one of the judges at the infamous Salem Witch Trials.

• Sources for Samuel Sewall

  • ¹ Boston, MA: Deaths, 1700-1799, Pages 31788-31789, 31835.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury Births, Vol. 1, Page 471, Birth record of Samuel Sewall at Bishopstole, Hampshire.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1881, Vol. 35, Page 324.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1952, Vol. 106, Page 162.
  • ⁵ Adams, Andrew N., A Genealogical History of Robert Adams, of Newbury, Mass., and his Descendants 1635-1900, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company (1900), 7.
  • ⁶ Emery, William M., Newell Ancestry: The Story of the Antecedents of William Stark Newell, Boston: Thomas Todd (1944), 204.
  • ⁷ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, p. 423.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 202.
  • ⁹ Tiffany, Nina Moore, Samuel E. Sewall: A Memoir, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1898), 2-4.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Samuel Sewall", (accessed 08/11/2011).