Samuel Sewell in Constant Self-examination

On Monday, April 29, 1965 Sewell experienced the rigors of the weather of a new world. He recounted the affects of a thunder and lightening storm that “was a very extraordinary storm of hail.” So much so that the ground “was made white with it.” He continued to explain that the “blossoms when fallen” could be typified as big as a pistol or musket bullets. In his words he questions the weather as a possible punishment that has come upon a new home breaking glass, of Colonel Shrimpton, Major General Governor Bradstreet, Mr. Willard and the new meetinghouse.

Sewell stopped short of making a direct connection between this bad weather being a punishment for their unwavering faithful life of a pious relationship with God that leaned upon religious elitism. Sewell recanted a story of being present in a new kitchen of Mr. Sergeant’s home. Cotton Mather was mentioning, “more ministe

Sewell leaned at times upon what he viewed as his standard of civility that others lacked in their upbringing. Sewell was openly against slavery yet stated that “there is such disparity in their conditions, colour and hair, that they can never embody with us, and grow up into orderly families, to the peopling of the land.” Liberty and freedom was for those only of the proper civil upbringing and appropriate religion. Sewell sought to bring the gospel to those that maintained such a deplorable lack of manners similar to his Puritan culture. Sewell understood the cultural norms of his religion to be the appropriate path to be saved yet daily questioned the reasoning that plagued the unfortunate circumstances he lived through.

In February of 1718 not long after the death of his first wife, Sewell waxed contrary to his Puritan beliefs on living a married life. He recounted contemplating a life of being a married or single. He closed this journal entry with calling himself to repentance as he stopped short of quickly closing his meditations of

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