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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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 ...

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