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See also:SEWALL, See also:SAMUEL (1652-1730) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born at See also:Horton, near Bishopstoke, Hants, See also:England, on the 28th of See also:March 1652. He was taken to New England in 1661; graduated at Harvard in 1671; studied divinity; and was See also:resident See also:fellow of Harvard in 1673-1674, and keeper of the See also:college library in 1674. In 1683 he was See also:deputy to the See also:General See also:Court for See also:Westfield; from 1681 to 1684 he managed the only licensed See also:printing See also:press in See also:Boston; and as a member of the See also:Board of Assistants in 1684-1686 and in 1689-1690 he was ex efficio a See also:judge of the See also:Superior Court. He was a member of the See also:Council in 1691-1725, and in 1692 he was made one of the See also:special commissioners of oyer and terminer to try persons accused of See also:witchcraft in See also:Suffolk, See also:Essex and See also:Middlesex counties. This court condemned nineteen. Sewall in See also:January 1697 stood in See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting while a See also:bill was read in which he took " the blame and shame " of the " See also:guilt contracted upon the opening of the See also:late See also:commission of oyer and terminer at See also:Salem," and asked See also:pardon. He was a judge of the Superior Court from 1692 to 1728, and in 1718-1728 was its See also:chief See also:justice; HI 1715-1728 he was judge of See also:probate for Suffolk See also:county. He died in Boston on the 1st of January 1730. Sewall has been called the " last of the Puritans " and his See also:character is attractively portrayed in See also:Whittier's Prophecy of Samuel Sewall. He was a strict Calvinist and opposed the growing liberal See also:control of Harvard College; he contributed to the cause of See also:Indian See also:missions, built an Indian meeting-See also:house (probably in See also:Sandwich), was one of the commissioners of the Society for the See also:Propagation of the See also:Gospel in New England and Parts Adjacent, and for more than twenty years its secretary and treasurer.
He wrote: The Selling of See also:Joseph, a Memorial (1700), the first See also:anti-See also:slavery See also:tract printed in See also:America; with See also:Edward Rawson, anonymously, The Revolution in New England Justified (1691; reprinted in Force's Tracts and in The See also:Andros Tracts) ; Phaenomena quaedam apocalyptica ad aspectum novi orbis configurata (1697) and Talitha Cumi, or an Invitation to See also:Women to look after their See also:Inheritance in the Heavenly Mansions, both full of See also:strange Biblical See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation; and a See also:journal begun in 1673, which, with his other papers, was bought by the See also:Massachusetts See also:Historical Society in 1869, and was published in vols. xiv.-xlviii. of its Collections.
See the See also:sketch in J. L. Sibley, See also:Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, ii. (1881), 345-371; an See also:article by C. H. C. See also:Howard in vol. See also:xxxvii. (Salem, 1901) of the Essex See also:Institute Historical Collections; N. H. See also:- CHAMBERLAIN (0. Fr. chamberlain, chamberlenc, Mod. Fr. chambellan, from O. H. Ger. Chamarling, Chamarlinc, whence also the Med. Lat. cambellanus, camerlingus, camerlengus; Ital. camerlingo; Span. camerlengo, compounded of 0. H. Ger. Chamara, Kamara [Lat.
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSEPH (1836— )
- CHAMBERLAIN, JOSHUA LAWRENCE (1828– )
- CHAMBERLAIN, SIR NEVILLE BOWLES (1820-1902)
Chamberlain, Samuel Sewall and the See also:World He Lived In (Boston, 1897); and G. E. See also:Ellis, An Address on the See also:Life and Character of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall (Boston, 1885).
His son, JOSEPH SEWALL (1686-1769), became pastor of the Old See also:South See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church in 1713, and was a powerful preacher who sided with See also:Whitefield. A descendant, SAMUEL EDWARD SEWALL (1799-1888), a lawyer, was prominent in the anti-slavery move-ment, first as a Garrisonian and afterwards as a member of the See also:Liberty and See also:Free-See also:Soil parties; he was counsel for a number of fugitive slaves, and after the See also:Civil See also:War he worked for the improvement of the legal status of women.
See Nina M. See also:Tiffany, Samuel E. Sewall: A Memoir (Boston 1898). SEWANEE, a See also:village of See also:Franklin county, See also:Tennessee, about 15 M. E. of See also:Winchester, the county-seat, and (by See also:rail) 95 M. S.S.E. of See also:Nashville. Pop. about 1200. Sewanee is served by the See also:Tracy See also:City See also:branch of the Nashville, See also:Chattanooga & St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis railway. It is on a See also:spur of the See also:Cumberland mountains about 2000 ft. above the See also:sea and about r000 ft. above the surrounding See also:country. It is a resort for sufferers from See also:malaria and pulmonary complaints. There are See also:mineral springs, See also:coal mines and See also:sand-See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone quarries here, all on the " domain," about 10,000 acres, of the University of the South, a See also:Protestant Episcopal institution of higher learning, founded in 1857, largely through the efforts of See also:Bishop See also:Leonidas See also:Polk, but not opened until 1868. The See also:principal buildings of the University, on a tract of loon acres, are all of Sewanee See also:sandstone; they include See also:Walsh Memorial (189o), with offices and college class-rooms; the Library (formerly See also:Convocation See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, 1886; remodelled 1901), with a See also:tower copied from Magdalen College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford; See also:Thompson Hall (1883; enlarged 1901), with See also:science lecture-rooms and laboratories; Hoff-See also:man Memorial (1898), a See also:dormitory; All See also:Saints' See also:Chapel (1909), a copy of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's College Chapel, See also:Cambridge; a Gymnasium (1901); Quintard Memorial (1901), the See also:home of the Sewanee Military See also:Academy (until 1908 the Sewanee See also:Grammar School), the preparatory See also:department of the University; and St. See also:Luke's Memorial (1878), the home of the Theological Department; and St Luke's Memorial Chapel (1907). The University is governed by a board of trustees consisting of the bishop, one clergyman and two laymen from each of 19 Protestant Episcopal dioceses in the See also:Southern States.
End of Article: SEWALL, SAMUEL (1652-1730)
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