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ceeded so far that Amadous abdicated the royal 

 power and the republic was proclaimed Feb. 11, 

 1873. Serrano, who bad remained quiet meanwhile, 

 was on Feb. 27, 1874, appointed president of the 

 executive power and took Ihe Held against the Car- 

 lists of the nortb. In May he returned triumphant 

 and received a splendid ovation. In December, 

 however, he again marched against the Carlists, 

 but learning that Alfonso, the son of Queen Isabella, 

 was to be proclaimed King, and believing that this 

 course would restore peace to Spain, he withdrew 

 for a short time to France. On Feb. 1, 1875, he re- 

 turned to Madrid and soon became a member Of the 

 new Spanish Senate. He objected to the terms of 

 the Constitution of 1876, but sought their amend- 

 ment bv legislative methods. In 1882 he proposed 

 the formation of a new party to be called the Dy- 

 n;i-tic Left. His opposition however gradually sub- 

 sided and in November, 1883, he was appointed 

 ambassador to France. He died at i'aris .Nov. 26, 

 1885. (J. P. L.) 



SETOX, ELIZABETH. See CHARITY, SISTERS OF. ' 



SEVEN DAYS' FIGHT. See PENINSULAR 

 CAMPAIGN. 



SKYKXTII DAY BAPTISTS. See BAPTISTS, 

 Sr.vKXTH DAV. 



SE VEX PINES, Battle. See PENINSULAR CAM- 

 PAIGN. 



SEVIEB, JOHX (1744-1815), first governor of 

 Tennessee, was born in the Shenandoah Valley, 

 Virginia, in 1744. He was of French Huguenot 

 parentage and was early noted for his agility and 

 daring. In 1769 he joined the party which built a 

 fort on Watauga River, supposing it to be in Vir- 

 ginia territory. In 1773 he was commissioned by 

 Lord Dunmore, governor of Virginia, as captain 

 and took part in an expedition against the Sliaw- 

 nce Indians. In the next year he fought at Point 

 Pleasant on the Ohio. In 1777 he was chosen as 

 delegate from the Watauga settlement to the Xortli 

 Carolina legislature and obtained a district orga- 1 

 nization and local courts for the territory west of 

 the mountains. His activity in holding in check 1 

 t.ie Indians whose war-path had been obstructed 

 by the new settlements, endeared him to the whites, j 

 Commissioned as lieutenant-colonel in 1779 he pun- : 

 ishcd the Indians severely at lioyd's Creek. Still j 

 more important was his leading his hardy followers ' 

 over the mountain* and gaining a signal victory 

 over the well-disciplined loyalists at King's Moun- t 

 tain, Oct. 7, 1780. This stemmed the British pro- 

 gress northward and revived the patriot cause in 

 North Carolina. The legislature therefore acknow- 

 ledged his bravery by a vote of thanks and a sword. 

 In 1784 however North Carolina made a conditional 

 cession of her territory beyond the mountains to 

 the General Government, and the settlers rinding 

 their interests neglected, assembled in convention 

 at Jonesborough, organized a separate State to be 

 called Franklin, and chose Sevier its governor. The 

 North Carolina authorities, roused by this action, 

 retracted their own proposal. They renewed their 

 claims to the territory, and supported some disaf- 

 fected settlers in their opposition to Sevier and his 

 government. His representatives appealed to Con- 

 gress at Philadelphia, but they met with little favor. 

 When Sevier's term of three years expired, no elec- 

 tion was held for a successor, and the inchoate State 

 lapsed into its original condition. Sevier was still 

 the leading man of the region and was commissioned 

 by Washington in 1790 as brigadier-general of 

 the "Territory South of the Ohio River," which 

 had be'jn formed from the lands relinquished by 

 Virginia and the Carolina*. The part ceded by 

 North Carolina was in 17!Hj erected into the State 

 of Tennessee, and Sevier was elected its governor. 

 He served for two terms, then retired, but in 1803 

 was again chosen and served six years more. In 

 VOL. IV.-2 B 



1811 he was elected to Congress and he served on 

 the committee on military atiairs during tlie war of 

 1812. In 1815 he accepted a commission to negoti- 

 ate with the Creek Indians and while engaged in 

 this business died near Fort Decatur, Ala., Sept. 24, 

 1815. His memory is honored by a monument at 

 Nashville. See Ramsay's History of Tennessee and 

 J. R. Gilmore's Mm Sevier, tlte Cmnrnonicealth- 

 Buildtr (1885). 



SEWALL, SAMUEL (1652-1730), Puritan, chief- 

 justice of Massachusetts, was born at Bii-hopstoke, 

 England, March 28, 1052. He was brought by his 

 lather toNewbury, Mass., in 1(559, and was educated 

 at Harvard, graduating in 1671. He remained 

 there as librarian, nnd studied theology, but his 

 marriage in 1676 with the daughter of the mint 

 master, John Hull, diverted him from preaching to 

 become assistant in his father-in-law's business. In 

 1684 he was made assistant-governor and as such 

 in 1686 he surrendered the colonial charter to Sir 

 Edmund Andros. During his visit to England in 

 1688-9 the people overthrew Andros' government. 

 Sewall ill 1692 was made a judge and also a member 

 of the executive council. In that year he presided 

 at the trial of some of the victims of the Salem 

 witchcraft delusion. A few years later, convinced 

 of his error, he made a public confession in the 

 church, asking pardon of God and men for his offence. 

 His conscience was also touched by the sin of slave 

 dealing, and he publisbid a tract, The Helling of 

 J<t^cfil{. (1700). He was also an advocate and sup- 

 porter of Indian missions. In 1718 he was promoted 

 to be chief-justice of the colony and held that office 

 ten years. He died at Boston, Jan. 1, 1730. He had 

 published Ansvers to Qiuriis reflecting America 

 (1690) ; Accomplishment ij' Prophecies (1713) ; De- 

 n'-i-ilit!i>n <j the JV>ic Ilnvm (1727). For full under- 

 standing of his life and times see his Itiary, edited 

 b\ .lo-eph Sewall and published by the Massachusetts 

 Historical Society (1878). 



His son. JOSEPH SEWALL (1688-1769), was a fer- 

 vid orthodox preacher, known as "The Weeping 

 Prophet." He graduated at Harvard College in 

 1707, and in 1724 was called to be its president, but 

 declined. He had been assistant pastor of Old 

 South Church since 1713, and was a member of the 

 Society for propagating the Gospel in New England. 

 He gave his approval to Whiteheld in 1740 and con- 

 tributed to the support of students at Harvard. He 

 died at Boston, June 27. 1769. 



Samuel's nephew, STEPHEN SEWALL (1704- 

 1760), also became chief-justice in 1752, after hav- 

 ing been .judge of the Superior Court since 1739. 



Stephen's nephew, JONATHAN MITCHELL SEW- 

 ALL (1745-1808), though a prominent lawyer, was 

 more famous as the writer of patriotic and political 

 songs. During the Revolution his " War nnd 

 Washington " had great vogue. In his " Epilogue" 

 to Addison's Cato, written in 1778, occurs the once 

 famous couplet : 



"No pent-up Utica contracts your powers, 

 But the whole boundless continent is yours." 



A collected edition of his Poems was published in 

 1801 at Portsmouth, N. H., where he died March 

 29, 1808. 



Stephen's grandnephew, JONATHAN SEWALL 

 (1728-1796), was a loyalist, and died judge of the 

 admiralty in New Brunswick. 



SAMUEL SEWALL (1757-1814), great-grandson of 

 the first-mentioned, attained to the same high 

 judicial position. He graduated at Harvard in 

 1770, and having engaged in the practice of law at 

 Marlilehead, was frequently elected to the State 

 legislature, and in 1797 to Congress. In 1800 he 

 was made judge of the Superior Court and in 1813 

 chief-justice. He died June 8, 1814, at Wiscasset, 

 Maine, where he had gone to hold court. 



