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Merchant, colonial magistrate, member of the Governor's Council, and diarist, 塞缪尔·席沃 (1652-1730) played a major role in the activities of the 麻萨诸塞州 湾 Colony for 56 年.

As a merchant, private banker, and property holder in England and in the colonies, he did business with numerous "cousins" in the mother country, spending a year in England from 1688 to 1689年，主要针对私人企业.

As a legislator, he served in the General Court and later the Governor's Council from 1683 to 1725. He was also successively a magistrate, a justice of the Superior Court, Judge of Probate 萨福克郡首席法官，高等法院首席法官. 他最引人注目的功绩是 member of the Commission of Oyer and Terminer, appointed in 1692 to oversee the Salem witchcraft 试用--a service for which he sought public forgiveness five 年 later.

In the civic life of the colony, he was manager of the printing press, an overseer of Harvard College, captain of the South Company of Militia in Boston, a pillar of Boston's Old South Church, and a commissioner of the Company for the Propagation of the Gospel. 在他的 出版物, 《og体育官网》 (1697)给出了一个新的 英国清教徒对天启的看法，以及 销售 约瑟夫 (1700) is the earliest anti-slavery tract in the American colonies.

His marriage of 41 年 to Hannah Hull produced 14 children, five of whom survived him. He subsequently married twice more, and unsuccessfully courted Katherine Winthrop, until her stipulations on his lifestyle and a marriage settlement caused him to break off 谈判.