Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Introduction Brief Account Of Hawthorne's Life: Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on Independence Day, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of a sea captain whose father was also a sea captain. Hawthorne's ancestors had been in Salem for a good part of two hundred years. They came to the New World with Governor Winthrop in 1603. His first two famous ancestors in America (described in "The Custom House" sketch) were William, a stern persecutor of the Quakers, and William's son John, one of the three judges at the Salem witch trials in 1692. When Hawthorne was four years ol...
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