Biography of judge john hawthorne

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Hathorne, John

• John Hathorne (1641-1717) was son of Major William Hathorne and author Nathaniel Hawthorne's (born Hathorne) great-great-great paternal grandfather.

• Justice John Hathorne was the third son of Major William and Anna Hathorne. He became a prosperous merchant in Salem and a judge on the Superior Court. He was also commander-in-chief against the Indians in 1696.

• He is best known, however as the "witch judge" or the "hanging judge" as he was a magistrate of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and the chief interrogator of the accused witches in the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692. He was also known as the one who never repented his actions.

• In Arthur Miller's play The Crucible (and its film adaptations) Hathorne is portrayed as quite sadistic and one of the most ignorant, antagonistic characters.

• Hathorne is the judge appointed by Satan at the trial in Stephen Vincent Benet's story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" where he is described as a tall man, soberly clad in Puritan garb, with the burning gaze of a fanatic.

• The horror film The Lords of Salem features a witch-hunting reverend named John Hawthorne.

See Also

Paternal Ancestors of Hawthorne Hawthorne in Salem site

A delusion of Satan; the full story of the Salem Witch Trials by F. Hill, p. 27,

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John Hathorne

Merchant and magistrate (1641–1717)

Not to be confused with John Hathorn.

John Hathorne (August 1641 – May 10, 1717) was a merchant and magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Salem, Massachusetts. He is best known for his early and vocal role as one of the leading judges in the Salem witch trials.

Hathorne was absent from the list of men appointed to the Court of Oyer & Terminer in June 1692. That court relied heavily on the spectral evidence, examinations, interrogations, and affidavits previously conducted by Hathorne, co-signed by Jonathan Corwin, and recorded by Rev. Samuel Parris and/or Ezekiel Cheever Jr. On September 22, 1692, the date of the final eight executions, Hathorne was present at a meeting (Sewall Diary) with Stoughton and Cotton Mather to discuss using court records in a new publication designed to promote the trials.^[1] Unlike Samuel Sewall, Hathorne is not known to have repented for his actions. He was a patrilineal ancestor of writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Life

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Hathorne's father, Major William Hathorne, was among the early settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s and held a number of military and political positions for several decades. John was born in Salem in August 1641; his fathe