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Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Author of The Scarlet Letter


    John Hathorne

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    • 2nd Great-grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne — 5th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 16 
    • Birth Date:
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    • Christening Date:
    • 2 Aug 1641 
    • Christening Location:
    • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
    • Death Date:
    • 10 May 1717 
    • Death Location:
    • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Marriage Date:
    • 22 Mar 1674/1675 
    • Marriage Location:
    • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
    • Children:

    • Nathaniel Hathorne

      Benjamin Hathorne

      Joseph Hathorne (Ahnentafel No:8 )

    • Notes: 
    • John Hathorne was one of the judges at the Salem Witch Trials in 1692.

      The records of John Hathorne's father gave John's birthdate as 04 AUG 1641. This conflicts with the church records that give his baptismal date as 02 AUG 1641.

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  • Sources for John Hathorne

    • 3 Cooke, Harriet Ruth (Waters), The Driver Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver of Lynn, Mass., New York: John Wilson and Son (1889), 284.
    • 4 Crane, Ellery Bicknell, ed., Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1907), 376.
    • 5 Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press (1959), 159.
    • 6 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, Descendants of the Reverend Francis Higginson: First Teacher in the Massachusetts Bay Colony of . . ., Unknown: Privately printed (1910), 9.
    • 7 Putnam, Eben, A History of the Putnam Family in England and America, Vol. 1, Salem, Massachusetts: The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Company (1891), 49.
    • 9 Threlfall, John Brooks, The Ancestry of Reverend Henry Whitfield (1590-1657) and His Wife Dorothy Sheafe (159?-1669) of Guilford, Connecticut, Madison, Wisconsin: Unknown (1989), 212.