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Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2621BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 18, 2012 11:00AM
Description:
Sewall, Stephen Senior (c. 1657-1725) Land Deed Signed, 18 December 1712.
Folio bifolium, inscribed on one page, signed twice by Sewall. Between Nicholas Wallingford and Caleb Hopkinson of Bradford, Massachusetts, old folds, 15 x 12 in.
Stephen Sewall, Senior, was the clerk of court during the Salem witchcraft trials. He was born in England and brought to the colonies with his family when a toddler. A resident of Salem, he also served as Justice of the Peace, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, and Major of the Militia, when he fought in the French and Indian Wars.
Estimate $500-700