The History of Massachusetts Blog's dedicated article on John Hathorne, confirming he was a Salem witch trial judge and the great great grandfather of Nathaniel Hawthorne, that he was the only judge in the trials who never repented, and that Hawthorne addressed this inherited guilt directly in "The Custom-House," the autobiographical sketch introducing The Scarlet Letter, quoting Hawthorne's own line asking that "any curse incurred by them...may be now and henceforth removed."
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AuthorHistory of Massachusetts Blog staff
PublisherHistory of Massachusetts Blog
URLhttps://historyofmassachusetts.org/john-hathorne-the-salem-witch-judge/
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Tier three: an independent popular history blog, not an academic press, used only for the well documented genealogical fact of Hathorne's descent to Hawthorne and the direct quotation from Hawthorne's own published introduction to The Scarlet Letter, both easily corroborated elsewhere. Cross-Tradition Connections
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