The children of the covenant under the promise of divine teachings
Subtitle: In a funeral discourse, occasioned by the death of Thomas Sewall; student in Harvard College: who died at Cambridge July 18th. 1716
By: By Samuel Moodey, M.A. Pastor of a church at York, in the province of Main [sic]
Series: Harvard in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Collections of the Harvard University Archives; Early American imprints -- no. 1840
Publisher: Printed by John Allen, for Samuel Gerrish, at his shop in King-Street the north-side of the Town-House
Published: 1716
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Subjects: American Sermons
Notes: Signatures: A-E⁶ F².

Evans 1840

Thomas Sewall was born in Newbury, Massachusetts on March 5, 1692/3. He was a student in Harvard College's Class of 1718 when he died of illness on July 16, 1716. His uncle Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) (Harvard AB 1671) described the funeral in his diary (transcribed in the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society Vol. VII-Fifth Series) and wrote, "God's distinguishing Goodness to me was very Affecting, to see poor Cousin Thomas dying and dead in the very Chamber and Lower Room where I lodg'd and Liv'd 2 years (a great Sinner) and then dwelt in the College, took both Degrees; went from thence." Samuel Moodey (Harvard AB 1697) was Thomas Sewall's brother-in-law.