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Born in Andover, MA, he graduated A.B. in 1703 from Harvard College where he then served as a tutor. In 1707, he and Henry Flynt competed with (and lost to) Joseph Sewall for the pulpit of Old South Church in Boston (Dunn, 211). Sevens was ordained 13 October 1713 in the First Church of Charleston, where he was chosen as Simon Bradstreet's assistant, serving there until his death (Wyman, 899; Sprague, 241).