[36] The first collected edition made with Whittier’s consent.
[37] Whittier, J. T. Fields, and Bayard Taylor.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
REFERENCES:
Julian Hawthorne: Nathaniel Hawthorne and his Wife, second edition, 1885.
Horatio Bridge: Personal Recollections of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1893.
G. E. Woodberry: Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘American Men of Letters,’ 1902.
I
HIS LIFE
Among the passengers in the ship which brought Winthrop and Dudley to the New World was William Hathorne, the ancestor of the novelist. A man of character, versatile, naturally eloquent, and a born leader, he rose to a position of influence in the colony. One of his sons, John Hathorne, was destined to sinister renown as a judge at the trials for witchcraft held at Salem in 1691.
Daniel Hathorne, a grandson of the old witch judge, took to the sea, and during the Revolutionary War served as a privateersman. He had seven children. Nathaniel, his third son, also a sea-captain, married Elizabeth Clarke Manning, and became the father of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the novelist, who was born at Salem, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1804.