Joseph Sewall 
Biography of Joseph Sewall
Portrait of Joseph Sewall, minister of Old South, Boston
Joseph Sewall was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity by the University of Glasgow in 1731.
Sewall was born in August of 1688 to Samuel Sewall, chief justice in Massachusetts and publicist of the first anti-slavery tract in the USA, The Selling of Joseph, in 1700. Sewall was a Harvard graduate and ordained to the Congregational ministry in 1713, after which he served as Minister of the Old South Church, Boston, 1713-69, the fourth minister of the church. A fellow of Harvard college, 1728-65, Sewall also served as a member of the commission appointed for the propagation of the Gospel in New England, and was member of the Scottish Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. His fellow Bostonians and ministers, Samuel Mather and Benjamin Colman, were likewise conferred a DD by the University of Glasgow in 1731.
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- GUA 21320 University Archives Inventory, Joseph Sewall DD
Summary
Joseph Sewall
Reverend Doctor
Born 15 August 1688.
Died 4 July 1769.
GU Degree: DD, 1731; Arts,
University Link: Honorary Graduate
Occupation categories: clergy
English snippet: Honorary Doctor of Divinity of the University of Glasgow, Minister of the Old South Church in BostonRecord last updated: 7th Jul 2014
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United States, Massachusetts
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University Roles
- Honorary Graduate
