Samuel Sewall of Boston: A Biography of Chief Justice Samuel Sewall - Magistrate, Churchman, Judge and Merchant of Colonial Boston

Book Description

New York: Macmillan, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Small moisture stain at top of textblock (non-penetrating), signed by author, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, small moisture stain at top rear, spine sunned, else bright and clean. Black cloth boards, gilt lettering, red endpages, frontispiece. 8vo. 235pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Bibliographical Note. Index. The "first full-length portrait of the New Englander known as "Good Mr Sewall"...As Chief Justice, distinguished churchman and successful merchant, he influenced all aspects of life around him, including college and military affairs - so that his long, varied career mirrors the spectrum of American interests and attitudes in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. He presided at the Salem Withcraft Trials - and confessed to his guilt in church. He campaigned for the Indians' conversion to Christianity, yet could scarcely countenance even their briefest visit to his home...and was the first man to write a tract urging the release of Negro slaves." Quite scarce inscribed.

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