Henry Sewall, of Rowley

Family

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Henry Sewall (II)

Born perhaps as early as 1573; baptized on April 8, 1576 at Coventry, Warwickshire.
Died in March 1655/56 at Rowley, Massachusetts.

Henry emigrated to New England in 1637 where he joined his son, {Rev} Henry Sewall at Newbury, Massachusetts, and moved a few years later to the nearby town of Rowley. Henry was known to have alienated his relatives. He was brought before the grand jury for various offences including beating his wife, using contemptuous speech and disturbing the worship in the church. He "is said to have been occasionally a little deranged." Records of Henry's derangement date from the 1640's and 50's. In contemporary records he is also referred to as Mr. Showell and Mr. Shewell.

Henry is said to have married first to Mary Cawarden, daughter and heiress of Thomas Cawarden of Manesgyu, Ridwere. However, this marriage cannot be proven. Mary died before she was twenty.

Henry married second to Anne Hunt 1614. Anne was born 1590 and died before July 1, 1615. Henry and Ann had a son:

• Henry Sewall (III), said to be "the only son by the second marriage", mentioned next.

Henry married third, shortly after December 16, 1615 when a licence was issued by the Bishop of Chester, to Ellen (Mosley) Nugent. Ellen was a daughter of Anthony and Alice (Webster) Mosley and a widow of Walter Nugent who had died in March 1613/14. Henry and Ellen separated in 1635. Henry was accused of beating Ellen circa 1637 or 1638; so there may have been some form reconciliation and Ellen may have come with him to New England in 1637. Henry and Ellen had seven children, all of whom died young: Samuel (b. 1616, d. 1618/19), Anna (b. 1618, d. before 1634), Sara (b. 1619/20, d. before 1621), Sara (b. 1621, d. 1622), Samuel (b. 1623, d. 1624/25), and an infant buried on June 8, 1627.

Born in Coventry England - moved to Newbury and then to Rowley.

http://www.gulbangi.com/5families-o/p89.htm#i2218

Henry was 40 at the time of his father's death ("The Death of Henry Sewall), this makes his birthdate about 1588.

Henry Sewall and Anna Hunt immigrated in 1635.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=michelott...

Immigrant from Manchester, Lancashire to Ipswich, MA 1635; Bio in the Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635 NEHGS VI:243

see: Ould Newbury (book) by John Currier:

Henry Sewall, born April 8, 1576 in Coventry England, married Ann Hunt. He sent his son Henry to New England in 1634, and shortly after came over himself. He lived awhile in Newbury near the Lower Green, but when the meeting hous was removed to the new town in 1646, he sold his house and land and removed to Rowley, where he died and was buried in March 1656-7.

Emigrated to New England in 1637 where he joined his son Rev. Henry Sewall in Newbury, MA. He moved a few years later to the town of Rowley. He is known to have alienated his relatives and is recorded to have been somewhat deranged. He was brought before the grand jury for offenses such as beating his wife and disturbing the worship in church.

Y-DNA haplogroup E-L542 (determined by Family Tree DNA for direct descendant David T. Sewall)

Add'l info: Diary of Samuel Sewall: 1674 - 1729, volume 1, page xvii

Cheney history has him as the Mayor of Coventry.

http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Rowley/aDeathsS.shtml "(Sewall) Henry, bur. ––: 1m: 1656." Note - "1m" is March.

Origins

http://www.robertsewell.ca/sewell.html#gen2

Henry Sewall (I)

Born in 1544 at Coventry, Warwickshire Died on April 26, 1628 at Coventry, Warwickshire was a Linen Draper in Coventry, Warwickshire; and was Mayor of Coventry in 1589 and 1606. He was apparently well to do, making a fortune as a merchant and lined draper. He married in 1575 to Margaret Grazebrook. Please click on Margaret Grazebrooke for her descent. Henry and Margaret had the following children:

1. Henry Sewall (II) Born perhaps as early as 1573; baptized on April 8, 1576 at Coventry, Warwickshire. Died in March 1655/56 at Rowley, Massachusetts
2. Richard Sewall (1578 - 1637) Richard Sewall married Mary Dugdale
3. Anne Sewall who was buried at Kenilworth, Warwickshire on January 23, 1632/33. Anne married at Allesley, Warwickshire on May 5, 1612 to Anthony Power
4. Margaret Sewall who died between May 4 and 22, 1646. Margaret married Abraham Randall of Coventry, Warwickshire before September 1, 1624. There were apparently no children.

Sources

• https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=11703+dick+cheney&ahnum... cites
• 1 Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 245.
• 2 Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 40.
• 3 Cleveland, Edmund Janes and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families: An Attempt to Track in Both the Male and the Female . . ., Vol. 1, Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company (1899), 109, Internet Archive (Digital Library).
• 4 Tiffany, Nina Moore, Samuel E. Sewall: A Memoir, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company (1898), 2, Google Books (Digital Library).