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Samuel Sewall
(1652-1730)
Judge in Colonial America (1652 - 1730)
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Samuel Sewall (March 28, 1652 – January 1, 1730) was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Selling of Joseph (1700), which criticized slavery. He served for many years as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature, the province's high court.

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28 March 1652
Bishopstoke, Hampshire, England
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1 January 1730 (aged 77)
Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay
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