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Henry Sewall

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Henry Sewall

Birth
Massachusetts, USA
Death
22 Dec 1685 (aged 15 days)
Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Hull -Quincy - Sewall Tomb
Memorial ID
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Henry Sewall

7th child, 2nd to pass away. John was first.

NOTES FROM BOOK SALEM WITCH JUDGE BY EVE LAPLANTE
PAGES 9-39
Baptized 12/13/1685 at Third Church of Christ, Boston, Mass. Built 1669 by his grandfather John Hull among others.

Named after father Samuel's father, a well to do farmer and preacher who lived at Newbury, Mass.

His father wrote that Henry died in the arms of his nanny on Tuesday morning as she rocked him. "About sunrise or a little after, he fell asleep, I hope in Jesus."

Buried 12/24/1785 near rear of Old Granary, between Paul Revere and Ben Franklin's parents, in large rectactangle 19th cent monument marked Sewall
He is buried with 40 other members of family
Henry Sewall

7th child, 2nd to pass away. John was first.

NOTES FROM BOOK SALEM WITCH JUDGE BY EVE LAPLANTE
PAGES 9-39
Baptized 12/13/1685 at Third Church of Christ, Boston, Mass. Built 1669 by his grandfather John Hull among others.

Named after father Samuel's father, a well to do farmer and preacher who lived at Newbury, Mass.

His father wrote that Henry died in the arms of his nanny on Tuesday morning as she rocked him. "About sunrise or a little after, he fell asleep, I hope in Jesus."

Buried 12/24/1785 near rear of Old Granary, between Paul Revere and Ben Franklin's parents, in large rectactangle 19th cent monument marked Sewall
He is buried with 40 other members of family

Inscription

1 The slab is inseribed : —
i JUDGE SEW ALL'S
Tomb.
Now the property of his
JECeirs.
PHILIP R. RIDGWAY
1810.
RALPH HUNTINGTON.
1812
N» 185
Ralph Huntington.



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