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Biographical Note
Joseph Sewall was born in 1795, in Bath, Maine, graduated from Bowdoin College in 1812, and practiced law in Bath, where he was collector of customs, 1842-1842, and adjutant general for the state of Maine, 1833-1834. Sewall died in 1851. His birth and death dates were obtained from the Library of Congress catalog that cites a lecture read by Sewall before the Lyceum (1833), entitled “the History of Bath,” Collections of the Maine Historical Society, vol. 2, 1847, pp. 189-228. Genealogical information was obtained from Louis Clinton Hatch, Maine: A History (New York, American Historical Society, 1919). vol. 4, pp. 383-385.