Jonathan M. Sewall


Jonathan Mitchel Sewall was an American lawyer and poet who achieved some notability, published as Jonathan M. Sewall.
He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, to Mitchel Sewall and Elizabeth Price.. He and his brother Stephen were adopted by their uncle, Chief Justice Stephen Sewall and they attended Boston Public Latin School from 1755 until at least 1760 when their uncle died. He studied law with his cousin Jonathan Sewall in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He joined the law office of John Pickering.He died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on March 29, 1808.