Sewell, Jonathan Senior

  • From: American Aristocracy: https://americanaristocracy.com/people/jonathan-sewall
    • Jonathan Sewall (1729-1796)
    • Judge Sewell/Sewall Sr., Attorney-General of Massachusetts
      • Jonathan Sewell Sr. (d. 1796) was Attorney General of Massachussetts. He fled to England in 1775 and in 1778 settled at Halifax as a Judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
      • onathan, Esther and their family resided at Cambridge, Massachusetts on Brattle Street. Jonathan was a graduate of Harvard College and was the last Attorney General of Massachusetts before the American Revolution.
      • The Sewall family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts was wrecked by a revolutionary mob, consisting of some fifty men and boys, on September 1, 1774. Jonathan was in Boston at the time, and a very frightened Esther Sewall struck a bargain with the mob of “patriots”. She exchanged the contents of her husband’s wine cellar for the mob’s dispersal. This terrifying event had a life-long impact on the eight-year-old Jonathan, Jr. who was to become the Chief Justice of Quebec. Jonathan, Esther and their children Jonathan, Jr., Elizabeth and Stephen moved to Boston within a week of the sacking of their Cambridge home; and were forced to flee what was to become the United States in 1775, never to return.
      • Harvard Class of 1748
  • Loyalist from the Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=7463
  • Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205249063/jonathan-sewall