 Faced with a 44-gun frigate and the defensive batteries of a fort, the British elected to retreat, none the wiser.In 1814 the fort was named for Samuel Sewall (1757–1814), who served as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1800 until his death in 1814.He was the great-grandson of the Salem witch trials judge of the same name, also a chief justice of the colony's highest court.