Excerpt from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis, or Political Essays: Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, Between Great Britain and Her Colonies Jonathan sewall was descended from Mitchills and and Hulls and Sewalls, and I believe Higginsons, i. E. From sever al of the ancient and venerable of New England families. But, asi am no genealogist, [must refer to my aged classmate and highly esteemed friend Judge Sewall of York, whose researches will, one day, explain the whole. Mr. Sewall' s father was unfortunate, died young, leaving his son destitute, but as the child had discovered a pregnant genius, he was educated by the charitable contribution of his friends, of whom Dr. Samuel cooper was one of the most active and suc cessful, among his Opulent parishoners. Mr. Sewall graduated at college in 1748; kept a Latin school in Salem, till 1756, when Chambers Russell, of Lincoln, ajudge of the Supreme Court and a Judge of Admiralty, from a principle of disinterested benevo lence, received him into his family instructed him in law; fur nished him with books and introduced him to the practise at the bar. In 1757 and 1758, he attended the Supreme Court in Wor cester, and Spent his evenings with me in the office of Colonel James Putnam, a gentleman of great acuteness of mind, and very extensive and successful in practise, and an able lawyer; in whose family] boarded and under whose auspices [studied law. Here commenced between Mr. Sewall and me, a personal friendship, which continued, with 'none but political interruptions, till his death. He commenced practice in Charlestown, in the County of Middlesex, I, in that parish of the ancient town of Braintree, now called Quincy, then in the County of Suffolk, now of N or folk. We attended the Courts in Boston, Cambridge, Charle'stown, and Concord lived together, frequently slept in the same cham ber, and not seldom, in the same bed. Mr. Sewall was then a patriot;_his sentiments were purely American. To James Otis, w took a kind notice of us both, we constantly applied for ad vice ia any difficulty, and he would attend to us, advise us, and look into books for us, and point out authorities to us, as kindly as if we had been his pupils or his sons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.