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Sewall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Arthur Sewall (1835–1900), American Democratic politician from Maine
- Charles S. Sewall (1779–1848), American politician
- George P. Sewall (1811–1881), American lawyer and State Representative from Old Town, Maine
- Harold M. Sewall (1860–1924), American politician and diplomat
- Harriet Winslow Sewall (1819–1889), American poet
- Jonathan Sewall (1729–1796), last British attorney general of Massachusetts
- Joseph Sewall (1921–2011), American politician and Senator from Maine
- May Wright Sewall (1844–1920), American feminist, educator, and lecturer
- Richard B. Sewall (1908–2003), American professor of English at Yale University
- Samuel Sewall (1652–1730), American judge in Massachusetts
- Samuel Sewall (congressman) (1757–1814), American lawyer and congressman
- Sarah Sewall, American lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School
- Stephen Sewall (academic) (1734–1804), American professor at Harvard University
- Sumner Sewall (1897–1965), American Republican politician and airline executive
- Thomas Sewall (1786–1845), American physician
Usage examples of "sewall".
Robert Treat Paine was another lawyer and Harvard graduate, whom Adams thought conceited but who, like Wibird and Sewall, had a quick wit, which for Adams was usually enough to justify nearly any failing.
While Jonathan Sewall fell almost immediately in love with Esther, whom he would eventually marry, Adams, Richard Cranch, and Bela Lincoln were all in eager pursuit of the high-spirited Hannah.
Yet when Jonathan Sewall, who had become attorney general of the province, called on Adams at the request of governor Francis Bernard to offer him the office of advocate general in the Court of Admiralty, a plum for an ambitious lawyer, Adams had no difficulty saying no.
With some understandable resentment perhaps, Sewall concluded that Adams had gone as far as his ambition would take him, and further that he was ill suited for his present role.
According to Adams, when Sewall died in New Brunswick a number of years later, it was of a broken heart.
These were people he had known all his life--the Floods, Judahs, Sewalls, Dunmores, Maynards, Rowleys, and Stoughtons--all that was left of the City of God, forty pitiful survivors.
Like many Loyalists living in exile in England, Sewall had had a difficult time getting by.
Jonathan Sewall, who was still attorney general, climbed a hill overlooking the blue sweep of Casco Bay, where they could talk privately.
Taking the initiative, he hunted up his old friend Jonathan Sewall, whom he had not seen since the day they bid farewell at Casco Bay in what seemed a lifetime before.
He finally made it to New Oslo on another of the Sewall Transportation Company's vast cargo ships--the voyage on that ship reminded him poignantly of the outbound trip--and then a suborbital flight to Mainside.
He finally made it to New Oslo on another of the Sewall Transportation Company's vast cargo ships—.
He finally made it to New Oslo on another of the Sewall Transportation Company'.
It was on October 29, three days after the passage by the General Court of the bill calling for a fast and a convocation of ministers for guidance “as to the witchcrafts,” and, as Judge Sewall tells us (see p.