Samuel Sewall
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Samuel Sewall was a judge, businessman, and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay The Sel
Portrait by John Smibert, 1729
Poem by Nehemiah Hobart in Latin, printed by Samuel Sewall, Boston, 1712
Granary Burying Ground
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The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston's third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street. It is the burial location of Revolutionary War-era patriots, i
Samuel Sewall
…Judicature's chief justice by Governor Samuel Shute. Sewall died in Boston on January 1, 1730, aged 77, and was interred in the family tomb at Boston's Granary Burying Ground. Sewall married three times. Hannah Hull, his first wife, died in 1717; two years later, in 1719, Sewall married Abigail (Melyen) Woodmansey Tilley…
Granary Burying Ground
The headstone for Andrew Neil and family is dated 1666, making it the earliest dated marker in the graveyard.
The entrance to the Granary Burying Ground as it appeared circa 1881 with the European Elms present
Granary Burying Ground with Suffolk Law School across the street, 2008