Samuel Sewallius[1] (vulgo Samuel Sewall, natus Bishopstoke Hantoniae in Anglia 28 Martii 1652; mortuus Bostoniae 1 Ianuarii 1730) fuit iudex, negotiator, et typographus in Provincia Sinus Massachusettensium, qui societate innotuit in iudiciis de magia apud Salem actis,[2] de quibus se tandem excusavit, ac praeterea commentario The Selling of Joseph ('Iosephus venditus', 1700), servitutem reprehendente.[3] Multos annos munus iudicis maximi Superioris Iudicaturae Iudicii Massachusettensis(en), maximi iudicii provincialis, sustinuit.

Samuel Sewall. Imago a Ioanne Smibert picta (1729).
Subscriptio.
Poema Nehemiae Hobart, a Samuele Sewallio ipso impressum (Bostoniae, 1712).

Opera recensere

Inter opera a Sewallio scripta sunt:[4]

  • 1691. The Revolution in New England Justified.
  • 1697. Phaenomena quaedam Apolyptica. PDF.
  • 1700. The Selling of Joseph.
  • 1713. Proposals Touching the Accomplishment of Prophecies.
  • 16741729. Diary of Samuel Sewall.
  • 1725. Talitha Cumi, or Damsel, Arise. Iterum impressum in LaPlante, 2007.
  • 1998. The diary and life of Samuel Sewall. Ed. Melvin Yazawa. Bostoniae: Bedford Books. ISBN 9780312133948.

Notae recensere

  1. Vide textum poematis Nehemiae Hobart (1712).
  2. Starkey 1949:261-262.
  3. Sewall 1998:1.
  4. PAL: Samuel Sewall (1652–1730)

Bibliographia recensere

  • Bridgeman, Thomas. 1856. The Pilgrims of Boston and their Descendants. Novi Eboraci: D. Appleton and Company. Google Books.
  • Chamberlain, Nathan Henry. 1967. Samuel Sewall and the world he lived in. Ed. 2a. Novi Eboraci: Russell & Russell.
  • Francis, Richard. 2005. Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of a Conscience. Londinii: Fourth Estate. ISBN 1841156760. Novi Eboraci: HarperCollins. ISBN 0007163622. Londinii et Novi Eboraci: HarperPerennial, 2006. ISBN 1841156779.
  • LaPlante, Eve. 2007. Salem Witch Judge: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall. HarperOne. ISBN 9780060786618.
  • Starkey, Marion L. 1949, 1982. The devil in Massachusetts: a modern inquiry into the Salem Witch trials. Praefatio Aldous Huxley. Alexandriae Virginiae: Time-Life Books. ISBN 0809437406. ISBN 0809437414 (charta).

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