Rick Kennedy

“Samuel Sewall, Cotton’s former tutor and future close friend, was unknowingly picked for a husband by sixteen-year-old Hannah Hull when she watched him present his commencement address in Latin. Her father was not an alumnus, but he was rich — very rich. He brought his daughter to commencement in order to take stock of the prospects, and she set her sights on Sewall. Later she found a way to meet him, and only after they were married did Hannah explain to Samuel that she had picked him out rather than the other way around.”
― Rick Kennedy, The First American Evangelical: A Short Life of Cotton Mather