Samuel Sewall

Description: (English Judge and Businessman)
British-American merchant Samuel Sewall is best remembered for a diary that he had penned and which threw light on the infamous Salem witch trials, which he had judged. He was the only judge to have publicly regretted the decision of the trials. A Harvard alumnus, he initially also managed a printing press.

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Birthday March 28, 1652 (Aries)
Died on January 1, 1730
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