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Major "William Hathorne died in 1(381, in bis 74th year. Wilprobated
June 28, 1681 ;
mentions son William lately deceased, and
Sarah the widow of the same, and her heirs ; appoints wife Anne
sole executrix.
John 2
Hathorne, distinguished both in civil and military affairs,
serving as Captain in the war with the Eastern Indians, the Colonel
of a regiment, and in the expedition of 1696 chief commander ; admitted
freeman 1677 ; Deputy, 1683 ; Assistant, 1684-1711 (except
in Andros's brief rule), and is remembered unhappily as the most
intolerant and cruel of the judges in the witchcraft delusion. He
had, by his wife Ruth (Gardner) :
i. John. 3
ii. Nathaniel. 3
iii. Ebenezer. 3
iv. Joseph, 3 bapt. June, 1691 ; m. Sarah, dau. of William Bowditch.
v. Ruth. 8
vi. Benjamin. 3
Joseph 3 and Sarah (Bowditch) had children :— 1. William. 4
2. Joseph.
4
o. John. 4
4. Sarah. 4
5. Ebenezer.* 6. Daniel. 4
7.
Ruth. 4
Daniel, 4 m. Rachel Phelps, and had children:— 1. Daniel, 5 died
soon. 2. Sarah.* 3. Eunice. 5
4. Daniel 5 2d. 5. Judith. 5
6. Nathaniel, 5 b. May 19, 1775; he was a sea captain and
died in Surinam in 1808; married Elizabeth Clark Manning
and had two children:— 1. Elizabeth Manning, 6 b. Mar. 7,
1802. 2. Nathaniel, 6 b. July 4, 1804; m. Sophia Peabody,
of Salem, July, 1842, and died at Plymouth, N. Ii., May 19,
1864. He changed the old surname to Hawthorne, and by his
genius placed it in the front rank of the world's great authors.
The apology for this digression is the eminence of this Nathaniel
Hawthorne.
Other descendants of Major William, 1
through other lines of
descent than John and William, Jr., are scattered over the whole
country, and bear both forms of the surname.
Capt. William 2
Hathorne, son of Major William, and the
subject of this sketch, has, in all published accounts known to me,
been very strangely overlooked by being identified as one with his
father. My attention was first called to the error of that supposition
by the mention of his "father" in his letter from Casco, Sept. 22,
1676. I found that he was engaged at the Eastward from September
6th up to November 10th, and that his father, Major
William, Assistant, was present in his place in the General Court
at Boston most of that time ; that administration upon the estate of
Capt. William
1678-9, Daniel
was granted to his widow Sarah, February 4,
Gookin and William Hathorne (Major) being the
Magistrates. Major William died 1681, and in his will mentions
having given his son William land
his widow Sarah and her heirs.
at Groton which he confirms to
In the expedition of December, 1675, against the Narragansetts,
as has been previously noted, Capt. Hathorne was appointed lieu-
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