When John Sewall was born on 10 October 1654, in North Baddesley, Hampshire, England, his father, Henry Sewall III, was 39 and his mother, Jane Dummer, was 27. He married Hannah Fessenden on 27 October 1674, in Lexington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 11 sons and 6 daughters. He immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America in 1661 and lived in Test Valley, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom in 1654 and Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America in 1661. He died on 8 August 1699, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.
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The Glorious Revolution brought the downfall of Catholic King James II and the reign of his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange.
English:
from the Middle English personal name Sewal(d), Sawal(d), Old English Sǣweald, from sǣ ‘sea’ + weald ‘rule(r)’. This name later became thoroughly confused with Sewal(d) from Old English Sigeweald or Old Norse Sigvaldr (see Sewell ). Compare Seawell .
variant of Sewell .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
Possible Related NamesHe died aged 45 years. [source: Vital Records of Newbury, MA to the end of the year 1849] (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66938409/john-sewall0
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