Sewall

[soo-uhl]

noun

1. Samuel, 1652–1730, American jurist, born in England.

Example Sentences

That effort began almost immediately when Samuel Sewall, a judge in the 1692-1693 Salem witch trials, issued a public confession in a Boston church five years later, taking “the blame and shame of” the trials and asking for forgiveness.

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The hole opened up on Sewall Highway on Monday morning after a pipe burst.

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Stein has been deputy staff director at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China since 2021 and previously served as senior advisor to Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights Sarah Sewall, including serving as her lead staffer on Tibetan issues.

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The earliest known owner was James Sewall Morsell, a judge of the U.S.

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As Sewall's "History of the Quakers" records, "So he stripped them, and then stood trembling whip in hand, and so he did the execution. Then he carried them to Salisbury through the dirt and the snow half the leg deep; and here they were whipped again."

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