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Thursday, April 24, 2025
Esther Sewall and “the female Connections”
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In the fall of 1774 and winter of 1775, Massachusetts attorney general Jonathan Sewall appears to have worked as an advisor to the royal go...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
“Putting all matters of politicks out of view”?
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Esther Quincy married Jonathan Sewall in January 1764, after a courtship of more than four years. She was the daughter of the Boston mer...
Sunday, April 05, 2020
The Disappearance of Jonathan Sewall
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In the mid-1760s, Jonathan Sewall allied with Gov. Francis Bernard , writing pseudonymous newspaper essays lampooning James Otis and fav...
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Monday, September 02, 2019
On the Night Before the Powder Alarm
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Yesterday we left Esther Sewall in her house in rural Cambridge on the night of 1 Sept 1774. Sewall had two young sons. Her husband, a...
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Sunday, September 01, 2019
Attack on Jonathan Sewall’s House
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On 1 Sept 1774, Gen. Thomas Gage sent soldiers out to Charlestown to remove the provincial militia ’s supply of gunpowder from the sto...
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