Sewall family correspondence and documents
Scope and Content note
Mostly correspondence, but also includes documents.
Dates
- Creation: 1801 - 1975
Creator
- Sewall, Dummer, 1737-1832 (Person)
- Abbott, Nehemiah, 1804-1877 (Person)
- Sewall, Loyall Farragut (1934-1995) (Person)
- Sewall, Charles (Person)
Access
Unrestricted
Copyright
Access to collections at Maine Historical Society is not an authorization to publish. Rights and reproduction requests may be submitted in writing to the MHS Image Services Coordinator or Research & Administrative Librarian, subject to format.
Biographical note
Sewall family of mid-coast Maine.
Col. Dummer Sewall (1737-1832) was born in York, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, to Capt. Samuel Sewall and Sarah Batchelder. He married Mary Dunning on December 16, 1760, in Bath. They were parents of at least four sons and six daughters, including Mary. Col. Sewall died in Bath, Maine.
Charles Sewall of Wiscasset, Me., was a botanist who served on the field expedition aboard Donald Baxter MacMillan's schooner Bowdoin to the Arctic region. He was married to Ruth Groves.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (shares a box with Coll. 4250)
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Gift of E. Christopher Livesay, June 20 and June 27, 2022 (acc. no. 2023.021).
Processing note
E. Christopher Livesay gifted this collection as part of a larger donation of material compiled over decades as a collector of Maine-related manuscripts and books. All of the material from the donation shares accession number 2023.021.
Source
- Livesay, E. Christopher (Donor, Person)
Subject
- Buck, Mary Sewall, 1762-1841 (Person)
- Sewall, Rufus King, 1814-1903 (Person)
- MacMillan, Donald Baxter, 1874-1970 (Person)
- Sewall, Egbert M. (Person)
- Sewall, Egbert K. (Person)
- Sewall family (Family)
- Bowdoin (Ship) (Organization)
Genre / Form
Geographic
Occupation
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Sewall family correspondence and documents
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Nancy Noble, MHS Archivist, May 2023
- Date
- December 22, 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Historical Society Repository