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Excerpt from American Men of Letters: Nathaniel Hawthorne
The third heir of the name, Joseph, was a plain farmer, in whose person the family probably ceased from the ranks of the gentry, as the word was then used. The fourth, Daniel, bold Hathorne of the Revolutionary ballad, was a privateersman, robust, ruddy of face, blue-eyed, quick to wrath, a strong-featured type of the old Salem ship master. His son, Nathaniel, the fifth descend ant, was also bred to the sea, a young man of slight, firm figure, and in face and build so closely resembling his famous son - for he was the father of Hawthorne that a passing sailor once recognized the latter by the likeness. What else he transmitted to his son, in addition to phy sique, by way of temperament and inbred capacity and inclination, was to suffer more than a sea change; but he is recalled as a stern man on deck, of few words, showing doubtless the early aging of those days under the in?uence of active respon sibility, danger, and the habit of command, and, like all these shipmasters for they were men of some education he took books to sea with him. He died at Surinam in 1808, when thirty-two years old. He had married Elizabeth Clarke Manning, herself a descendant in the fifth gen eration of Richard Manning, of St. Petrox Par ish, Dartmouth, whose widow emigrated to New England with her children in 1679. Other old colonial families that had blended with the Ha thornes and Mannings in these American years were the Gardner, Bowditch, and Phelps stocks.
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