ENGRAVINGS. PAGE. ARBUTHNOT, JOHN, 306 From a Painting in the Possession of the Royal College of Physicians. ARMSTRONG, JOHN, 475 Drawing by J. Thurston, Engraving by F. Engleheart, from Miniature by Shelley. ATTERBURY, FRANCIS, 63 Engraving by Simon, from Painting by Kneller. BENTLEY, RICHARD, 109 Engraving by T. Posselwhite, from a Picture by Hudson in Trinity College, Cambridge. From Painting by William Aikman. GOLDSMITH, OLIVER, From a Painting by Alonzo Chappel, from Original Painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. GRAY, THOMAS, 475 23 381 683 553 403 613 553 Engraving by W. Greatbatch, from Drawing by Eckhardi. From a Painting by Alonzo Chappel, from Original by Sir Joshua Reynolds. MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY, Engraving by W. H. Lizars, from Painting by J. Burgess. Original Picture by Bindon in the Deanery House of St. Patricks, Dublin. Engraving by H. Adlard, from a Painting by Hoare in Gloucester Palace. YOUNG, EDWARD, 459 Drawing by J. Thurston, Engraving by W. c. Edwards, Original Picture by Highmore. Colonist and judge, son of Henry Sewall and Jane, daughter of Stephen Drummer, was born at Bishopstoke, Hampshire, on 28 March 1652. Emigrating in childhood with his parents to Newbury, Massachusetts, he was educated at a private school and at Harvard, entering in 1667, and graduating B. A. in 1671 and M. A. in 1674. He was then ordained minister, but on his marriage in 1677 was induced to leave that calling, and, under the patronage of his father-in-law, started a printing-press at Boston. He soon became known in public life, and in 1684 was elected a member of the court of assistants for Massachusetts. In 1688 he came to England on business. In 1692 Sewall, as a justice of the peace, was concerned in adjudicating in the Salem witchcraft case, but afterwards bitterly repented of his share in the proceedings, and publicly announced the fact, henceforward spending one day annually in fasting and prayer. He afterwards became one of the regular judges of Massachusetts, and in 1718 chief justice. He retired in 1728, and died at Boston on 1 Jan. 1730. Sewall married, on 28 Feb. 1676, Hannah, daughter of John Hull and Judith Quincy. He left a long line of descendants, the "loyalist" branch of which changed the spelling of the name to "Sewell." Sewall's diary, an interesting and valuable source for the social history of the colony from 1674 to 1729, was first published in the "Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society," 5th Ser. vol. V. An engraving, from a supposed original portrait (date and artist unknown), forms the frontispiece. Sewall was also author of a phamphlet against slavery, entitled "The Selling of Joseph" (1700).-HARRIS, C. ALEXANDER, 1897, Dictionary of National Biography, vol. LI, p. 279. PERSONAL Stately and slow, with thoughtful air, A strong, gentle, and great man was Samuel Sewall, great by almost every measure of greatness,-moral courage, honor, benevolence, learning, eloquence, intellectual force and breadth and brightness. TYLER, MOSES COIT, 1878, A History of American Literature, 1676-1765, vol. II, p. 99. Sewall was a representative of the most devout English Puritans, but he was of a submissive, not an aggressive temper. He was honestly attached to the old church and state government of the early settlers. His political and religious principles were thoroughly Puritan, and he had an almost morbid dislike of innovations of all sorts. . . The character and behavior of Sewall and men like him were the prevailing cause of the overthrow of the charter government.-LODGE, HENRY CABOT, 1878, The Last of the Puritans, Magazine of American History, vol. 2, p. 645. Judge Sewall is better known to us in both his outer and inner being, in all his elements, composition, and manifestation of character, in his whole personal, domestic, social, official, and religious life, than is any other individual in our local history of two hundred and fifty years. And this is true not only of himself, but through his pen, curiously active, faithful, candid, kind, impartial, and even just, his own times stand revealed and described to us, as if by thousands of daguerreotypes and repeating telephones.-ELLIS, GEORGE E., 1884, Address on Samuel Sewall, Oct. 26. He was an amiable and honorable man, whose outer and inner life for fifty-six years, laid open upon the pages of his private Diary, bears the light as few men's lives could do, but he had a leaning toward creature comforts and respect for shillings and pence prophetic of the Yankee constitution.-BATES, KATHARINE LEE, 1897, American Literature, p. 37. Sewall, though he seems opinionated,narrow, mercenary, and over frugal, as seen by the light of to-day, should be judged by the ethics of historical criticism--that is, regarded in the environment of his age, in the atmosphere and circumstances of Puritan New England. Thus viewed, his was certainly a kindly, wise, thoughtful, prudent, helpful, honourable, and fruitful life. Even those dark days of his life, his brief but sad part in the Salem Witchcraft, are glorified by his noble. public penitence therefor in later life.EARLE, ALICE MORSE, 1897, "A Puritan Pepys," The Bookman, vol. 5, p. 425. Pepys or Evelyn. The interest of the work lies not so much in any particular part as in the aggregation of the details of the whole record. In this volume we have the daily life of a Bostonian recorded for fifteen years. We enter imperceptibly into a knowledge of his surroundings, his joys and sorrows, his cares and his successes. We learn when his children are born, when they are ill, and when they die. We know, above all, about the daily occurrences of the town at a time. when newspapers were not and the reporter was unimagined.- WHITMORE, W. H., 1878, Sewall's Diary, The Nation, vol. 27, p. 287. Judge Sewall's "Diary" is essentially a work of historical reference. It can never be a popular book, or even in considerable demand with general readers. There is too much uninteresting detail in it; nor is the subject in any aspect a large or inviting one. To the student of New England history, however, it is a mine of necessary information.-ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, JR., 1882, Sewall's Diary, The Nation, vol. 35, p. 77. In these many pages of Sewall we find traces of austerity, narrowness, bigotry, pettiness, and (in the witchcraft matter) fatal delusion; but we are still more impressed with the writer's sincerity, constant endeavor to do right, and faithful adherence to those principles of duty which are the foundation of society. The little details of his life are no more trivial than would be those of most men, if written down as fully; the records of an old man's courtships, melancholy-amusing as they are, and it should be said that they ought not to have been printed, reveal nothing morally discreditable; and even in the witchcraft error, let us not forget that Sewall shared his mistake with hundreds of the most learned and devout men of this time, in both hemispheres; that his part in the executions was no greater than that of others of high standing in England and America; and that, more fully than any of them, he publicly and privately recanted.-RICHARDSON, CHARLES F., 1887, American Literature, 1607-1885, vol. I, p. 108. It is perhaps the only book of the Colonial period that can be read through with pleasure.-HAWTHORNE, JULIAN AND LEMMON, LEONARD, 1891, American Literature, p. 6. |