Mary Sewall

Mary Dunning was born on 4 April 1739 in York, Maine.2,3 She died on 10 July 1823 in Bath, Maine, at the age of 84 (gravestone). (Sinnett gives a date of 10 September, 1823).

She was the daughter of William Dunning and Deborah Donnell.1,4

Mary Dunning married Colonel Dummer Sewall, son of Capt. Samuel Sewall and Sarah Batchelder, on 18 December 1760 in York, Maine, conducted by the Rev. Mr. Isaac Lyman. The Vital records, 1779-1903 Bath, give a date of 16 December at Bath.5

Mary Dunning is said to have been "the prettiest girl of Old York, Maine, she was a woman of truly a sterling character, very patriotic,and beloved by all."4,3

Children of Mary Dunning and Colonel Dummer Sewall

1. Dummer Sewall+1 b. 7 Jan 1761, d. 11 Feb 1846
2. Mary Sewall+1 b. 22 Nov 1762, d. 26 Dec 1841
3. Sarah Sewall+1 b. 7 Feb 1765, d. 7 Sep 1842
4. Lydia Sewall+1 b. 6 Oct 1767, d. 28 Feb 1794
5. (unknown) Sewall6 b. 15 Jan 1769, d. 10 Mar 1769
6. (unknown) Sewall6 b. 15 Jan 1769, d. 10 Mar 1769
7. Joseph Sewall+1 b. 17 Dec 1770, d. 3 Nov 1851
8. Rev. Samuel M. Sewall+ b. 6 Apr 1772, d. 15 Mar 1851
9. Hannah Sewall+1 b. 17 May 1774, d. 27 May 1842
10. Deborah Sewall7 b. 10 Dec 1776, d. Sep 1778
11. John Sewall1 b. 20 Oct 1778, d. 20 Nov 1824

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She is buried in the cemetery at the Sewall Estate on Beacon Street, in Bath, Maine, and is marked with a granite monument.

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Citations

1. [S5] William Darcy McKeough, McKeough Family Tree.
2. [S83] NEHGR, Vol. 74 p. 100.
3. [S153] Charles Nelson Sinnett, Sinnett's Sewall genealogy, p. 25.
4. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Vol. 3 p. 249.
5. [S83] NEHGR, Vol. 115 p. 64 Vital Records of York, Maine.
6. [S153] Charles Nelson Sinnett, Sinnett's Sewall genealogy, p. 26.
7. [S106] Maine Families in 1790, Maine Families Vol. 3 p. 250.

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• page 99 of The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. "The Dunnings of Maine"