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     William Bartlett Sewall was born on 18 December 1782 in York, Maine.¹ He was the son of Daniel Sewall and Dorcas Bartlett.² William Bartlett Sewall was baptised on 28 December 1782.³ He graduated in 1803 from Harvard.² He married as his first wife Elizabeth Cross, daughter of Joseph Cross Jr., on 26 November 1816 at Portland, Cumberland County, Maine.^4,3 William Bartlett Sewall married secondly Maria Moody Gilpatrick, daughter of Richard Gilpatrick and Dorothy Rose Moody, on 26 January 1841 at Kennebunk.⁵ William Bartlett Sewall died on 4 March 1869 in Kennebunk, Maine, at the age of 86 s.p.^4,6

     William Benjamin Dunning Sewall was born on 4 October 1839 in Pittsfield.¹ He was the son of Dummer Sewall and Phebe Higgins.² William Benjamin Dunning Sewall died on 9 January 1863 in Fairfax Station, Virginia, at the age of 23.¹

     William Brooks Sewall was born on 5 July 1817.¹ He was the son of Rev. Samuel M. Sewall and Mary Lambard.¹ William Brooks Sewall died on 8 December 1844 at the age of 27.¹

     William Bull Sewall was born on 13 September 1832 in New York City.³ He was the son of Moses Sewall and Louisa Lentner.⁴ William Bull Sewall married Lena French Ingalls on 12 November 1868 in Boston, Massachusetts.^5,6 William Bull Sewall and Lena French Ingalls appear on the census of 1880 at Boston, Massachusetts, William Sewall is listed as a cordage merchant.⁵ William Bull Sewall died on 10 December 1900 at 60 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 68 and was buried in Cambridge.⁷

     William C. Sewall was born on 16 March 1865 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.¹ He was the son of Jotham Sewall and Mary Abby Bailey.¹

     William C. Sewall Jr. was born on 17 March 1918 in Fresno, California.¹ He was the son of Walter Moody Sewall and Verna Margarite Richardson.² William C. Sewall Jr. married Alma F. Norman.³ William C. Sewall Jr. died on 22 September 1998 in California at the age of 80.³

     William Cleveland Sewall. President of Gordon, Sewall & Co. He was born on 29 July 1881 in Houston, Texas.² He was the son of Edward Wales Sewall and Gabriella Harriet (Ella) Campbell.¹ William Cleveland Sewall is also recorded as Cleveland Sewall on the 1900 census.³ He married Blanche Harding, daughter of Hallock Harding and Kate Buchanan, on 23 November 1910 in Fort Worth, Texas.⁴ William Cleveland Sewall died on 25 December 1942 at 3452 Inwood Drive, Houston, Texas, at the age of 61.¹ He was buried on 26 December 1942 in San Antonio, Texas.²

     Rev. William Dummer Sewall was born on 15 July 1813 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine.^1,2 He was the son of Dummer Sewall and Sarah or Sally Merrick.¹ Rev. William Dummer Sewall married Susan A. McPherson on 29 January 1834 in Skowhegan, Maine.³ Rev. William Dummer Sewall died on 24 April 1840 in Maine at the age of 26.⁴

     William Dunning Sewall was born on 16 January 1797 in Bath, Maine. He was the son of Joseph Sewall and Lydia Marsh.² William Dunning Sewall married Rachel Allen Trufant, daughter of William Trufant, on 1 January 1821 in Bath, Maine, the marriage being solemnised by the Rev. John W. Ellingwood.³ "inherited considerable landed estate from his grandfather; engaged in shipbuilding; was a member of the Senate from Lincoln in 1841 & 1842 and was once a member of the congregational church in Bath but became a Swenborgian."² William Dunning Sewall died on 30 January 1877 at the age of 80⁴ and is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Bath, Maine.⁴

     William Dunning Sewall was born on 14 April 1861 in Bath, Maine.² He was the son of Hon. Arthur Sewall and Emma Duncan Crooker.¹ William Dunning Sewall married Mary Loke Sumner, daughter of George Sumner and Sarah Richardson, on 9 June 1886 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.³ William Dunning Sewall died on 25 April 1930 on Boston Post Road, Kittery, Maine, at the age of 69, in an automobile accident. His wife and her sister, Mrs. Caroline Liscomb were injured in the accident, as was the chauffeur who lost two front teeth.^4,5

     William Dunning Sewall was born on 8 March 1804 in Chesterville, Franklin County, Maine.² He was the son of Dummer Sewall and Jenny Dunning. William Dunning Sewall married Mary Ann Kellins on 29 September 1826. William Dunning Sewall died on 18 August 1839 in Chesterville, Maine, at the age of 35.¹

     William Dunning Sewall was born on 24 November 1850.¹ He was the son of Dummer Sewall and Mary Savory Cook.¹ William Dunning Sewall died in November 1851.¹

     William Dunning Sewall was born on 21 January 1921.¹ He was the son of Arthur Sewall and Laura A. Barler. William Dunning Sewall married Phebe Buckman on 14 April 1951 in the First Presbyterian Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.² William Dunning Sewall died on 26 April 2003 at the age of 82¹ and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath, Maine.
Former Bainbridge resident William D. Sewall, 83, of Bath, Maine, died April 26.
He was born in Bath, Maine, on Jan. 22, 1921, the son of Arthur and Laura Barler Sewall. He was educated at Choate School in Wallingford, Conn., and earned a degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served in the United States military from September 1942 to February 1946. He was awarded two medals and several military citations.
He and his wife, the former Phebe Buckman, moved to Seattle in 1951, and to Bainbridge Island in 1956. He worked as an accountant for Boeing and as a stock broker for Dominick & Dominick before owning and operating Western Tours, Inc. While in Bainbridge, he co-founded the Port Madison Yacht Club. He was a lifelong Rotarian. He retired in 1979 and returned to his family home, Stonehouse Farm, in Maine. He devoted the remainder of his life to a variety of civic and philanthropic concerns. His first project after returning to Bath was to help with fund-raising for the restoration of the steeple of the Winter Street Church. He helped open the new Maine Maritime Museum; presided over and fund-raising for the Coastal Humane Society; was actively involved in the Bath Rotary; and delivered Meals on Wheels to senior citizens. He also co-founded the Sewall Family Fund for the purpose of restoring and preserving Bath's maritime history and artifacts. His favorite charities included the Coastal Humane Society, the Bath YMCA, the Maine Maritime Museum, the Patten Free Library and the city of Bath ambulance service.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1993, and sister Mary Hyde, who died in 1990. He is survived by four daughters: Abbie Sewall of Yarmouth, Maine; Laura Sewall of Phippsburg, Maine; Gretchen Sewall and her husband Harry Laban of Edmonds, Washington; and Lee Sewall and her husband Mike McAleney of Cumberland, Maine; six grandchildren, Emma and Thatcher Sewall Shultz of Yarmouth, Maine; Emmett and Asher Laban of Edmonds, Wash; Deehan and Elizabeth McAleney of Cumberland, Maine; and three nieces and nephews. Bainbridge Island Review, April 2003.¹

     William Dunning Sewall was born on 2 May 1827.¹ He was the son of William Dunning Sewall and Rachel Allen Trufant.¹ William Dunning Sewall married Lydia Mary Fitts on 9 April 1851 in Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine.² William Dunning Sewall died on 9 September 1851 in Bath, Maine, at the age of 24 "On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. William D. Sewall, Jr., of the firm Clark, Sewall & Co., of this city, while walking on the box stage of a new ship suddenly lost his balance and fell a distance of about 18 feet. On reaching the ground he received so severe a contusion in his head as to terminate fatally in a few hours". Bath Tribune³ and is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, Bath, Maine, where his gravestone gives his date of death as 24 September 1851.⁴

     William Dunning Sewall was born on 22 April 1857 in Maine.¹ He was the son of Edward Sewall and Sarah Elizabeth Swanton.¹ William Dunning Sewall died on 21 September 1857 in Bath, Maine.¹

     William Edward Sewall was born on 16 April 1912 in Brooklyn, Hennepin County, Minnesota.¹ He was the son of Frank Lincoln Sewall and Catherine Vlcek.¹ William Edward Sewall married Elsie Marie Hoven.³ William Edward Sewall died on 18 November 1983 in Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin, at the age of 71.²

     William Edward Sewall was born on 24 March 1940 in Superior, Douglas County, Wisconsin.^1,2 He was the son of William Edward Sewall and Elsie Marie Hoven.¹ William Edward Sewall married Arlene Rae (?) William Edward Sewall died on 8 April 2004 at the age of 64.²

     William F. Sewall was born on 19 May 1837.¹ He was the son of Emerson Sawyer Sewall and Patience M. Tarbox.¹ William F. Sewall died on 5 September 1843 in Westport at the age of 6.¹

     An insurance dealer of New York.² William Gibbs Sewall was born on 22 January 1856 in New York.¹ He was the son of Dr. John Gallison Sewall and Joanna Winslow Gannett.¹ William Gibbs Sewall appears on the census of 1900 at 77th Street, New York, living with his mother and sister.³ He died on 30 May 1916 in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 60 unmarried. He left an estate of $31,454.^2,4,5

     William Gilman Sewall was born on 11 March 1874 at 26 Brimmer, Boston, Massachusetts.³ He was the son of William Bull Sewall and Lena French Ingalls.¹ William Gilman Sewall married Angela de Acosta, daughter of Ricardo de Acosta and Micaela Hernandez De Alba Y De Alba, on 15 November 1910 in 1037 Madison Avenue, New York.⁴ In 1919 he was in British East Africa at the time of his brother's death.² William Gilman Sewall and Angela de Acosta were divorced in October 1922 at Paris, France.⁵ William Gilman Sewall died on 14 July 1941 in the Post Graduate Hospital, New York City, at the age of 67 of a cerebral haemorrhage. The announcement in The Times describes him as being of Boston, Massachusetts and Njoro, Kenya. The New York Times gives a fuller picture and describes him as a big game hunter who owned 40,000 acres of rubber and wheat plantations in Kenya. Several of his game trophies adorn the Harvard Club in New York. In the first world war he served as a captain in the British Army and was on the staff of General Smith-Dorrien in the expedition to Kenya.^6,7

     William Goodrich Sewall was born on 23 October 1837 in Sangerville, Maine.² He was the son of Samuel Moody Sewall and Mary Ann Ordway.¹ William Goodrich Sewall appears on the census of 1860 at Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine, listed as a turner of wood.¹ On 24 April 1861 he entered military service as a private in Company A 6th Maine Infantry and was discharged 15 August 1864 in Portland, Maine.³ He married Gertrude Kate Miller on 21 July 1885.⁴ William Goodrich Sewall died on 15 March 1912 in Sawtelle, California, at the age of 74.³

     William Hanson Sewall was born on 22 April 1854.¹ He was the son of Rev. Rufus King Sewall and Anne Elizabeth Whitehurst.¹ William Hanson Sewall died on 31 January 1855.¹

     William Harmon Sewall was born on 22 February 1821 in York, Maine.¹ He was the son of Joseph Sewall and Abigail H. Gray.¹ William Harmon Sewall married Lydia Jane Moore, daughter of Oliver Moore, on 11 November 1847 in York, Maine.² William Harmon Sewall died on 3 July 1864 in York, Maine, at the age of 43³ and is buried in South Side Cemetery, York Village.³

     William Harmon Sewall was born on 4 April 1864 in York, Maine.^1,2 He was the son of William Harmon Sewall and Lydia Jane Moore.¹ William Harmon Sewall and Charles William Sewall appear on the census of 1880 at York, Maine, where he is listed as a farmer with his youngest brother as a farm labourer.² William Harmon Sewall married firstly Susan Kingston, daughter of George Kingston, on 11 August 1891 in Boston, Massachusetts.³ William Harmon Sewall married Theresa Johnson, daughter of Thomas Johnson, on 29 May 1894 in Boston, Massachusetts.³ William Harmon Sewall died on 31 October 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of 79.⁴

     William Henry Sewall was born on 3 April 1842 in Maine.² He was the son of Charles Sewall and Miranda Robertson.¹ William Henry Sewall and Emma Collins Sewall appear on the census of 1900 at Brunswick Road, Bath, Maine, both appear unmarried; they employ a housekeeper.³ William Henry Sewall appears on the census of 1920 at Bath, Maine.⁴ He died on 25 April 1923 in Bath, Maine, at the age of 81 unmarried² and is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Bath, Maine.⁵

     William Henry Sewall was born on 25 April 1824 in Fairfax County, Virginia.^1,2 He was the son of Nicholas Lewis Sewall and Sarah West.¹ William Henry Sewall married Jannetta D. Hunter on 28 November 1866 in Alexandia, Virginia.³ William Henry Sewall died on 3 November 1911 in Falls Church, Virginia, at the age of 87² and is buried in Saint James Cemetery, Falls Church, Virginia.²

     William Jenks Sewall was born on 14 April 1846 in Brownville, Maine.¹ He was the son of Rev. William Stinson Sewall and Miriam Purinton.² William Jenks Sewall married Mary E. Dole, daughter of Isaiah Dole and Elizabeth Pearson, circa 1873.³ William Jenks Sewall and Mary E. Dole appear on the census of 1900 at Keene, New Hampshire, he is a tinsmith.³ William Jenks Sewall died on 13 April 1938 at 35 Forest Street, Keene, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, at the age of 91.⁴

     William Jesse Sewall. Publisher of the Carthage Daily Press.² He was born on 2 June 1866 in Virden, Illinois.¹ He was the son of William Winter Sewall and Susan Eva Cox.¹ William Jesse Sewall married secondly Mary Taggart, daughter of Rev. Samuel B. Taggart and Frances Rockwell, on 6 September 1893 in Madison County, Illinois.^1,3 William Jesse Sewall married thirdly Jean Strider on 28 July 1951 in Alton, Illinois. William Jesse Sewall died on 18 February 1957 in Carthage, Missouri, at the age of 90⁴ and is buried in Park Cemetery, Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri.⁶

     William John Sewall was born on 9 October 1866 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.¹ He was the son of Oliver Henry Sewall and Elizabeth Miller.² William John Sewall married Effie Pearl Doty, daughter of George Doty and Elizabeth J. Mitchell, circa 1893 in Pennsylvania.¹ William John Sewall died on 24 September 1940 in Ellwood City Hospital, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, at the age of 73.¹

     William Ladd Sewall was born on 11 November 1849 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Samuel Greene Sewall and Sarah Cornelia Otis.¹ William Ladd Sewall died on 27 March 1855 in Woburn, Massachusetts, at the age of 5.²