Maj. Stephen Sewall

Stephen Sewell came to New England with his mother Jane (Dummer) Sewall, brothers Samuel and John and sisters Hannah and Jane in 1661. Stephen’s father, {Rev} Henry Sewall, had returned to Massachusetts in 1659.

   Stephen was Registrar of Deeds, Essex County Salem, Massachusetts, and he held numerous public offices: clerk of the special Court of Oyer and Terminer which tried the witchcraft cases of 1692, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Major of the Militia and Justice of the Peace. In the Journals of the General Court of 1738, five hundred acres of public land near Salem were voted to his children in recognition of their father's service in the Queen's War between the English and the French.

Came to NE with his mother in 1661.

He was the Registrar of Deeds, Essex County, Salem, MA, clerk of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer that tried the Salem Witchcraft cases of 1692, Major of the Militia and Justice of the Peace. In 1738, 500 acres of land were granted to his children in recognition of his service to the queen in the War between the French and the British.

Add'l info: Diary of Samuel Sewall: 1674 - 1729, volume 1, page xix

https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Newbury/aBirthsS.shtml "(SEWALL (Sewal)) Stephen, s. Henry and Jane, at Baddesly, Hampshire, Aug. [15. S. dup.], 1657."

https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Salem/aMarriagesS.shtml "(SEWALL (Seawell)) Stephen, and Margerett Mitchell, June 13, 1682."

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38432302/stephen_sewall

Salem witch trial figure, militia commander, county and court official, merchant, pirate hunter. He was born in Baddesly, Warwickshire, the son of the Rev. Henry Sewall.