Molly Elliot Seawell (October 23, 1860 – November 15, 1916) was an American early American historian and writer. She was born Gloucester, Virginia, as Mary Elliot Seawell, a member of one of the older families of to settle in North America and one of the first families of Virginia. Her father was John Tyler Seawell, a lawyer and orator and a nephew of President John Tyler. Her mother (Tyler's second wife), Frances Elizabeth Jackson Seawell, was a native of Baltimore whose father, Major William Jackson, had fought in the War of 1812.
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