a temper to sway and incite, which made him re-
puted the most eloquent man in the public assem-
bly. He possessed -- and this may indicate another
side to his character -- a copy of Sir Philip Sidney's
"Arcadia", certainly a rare book in the
wilderness. He was best remembered, both in
local annals and family tradition, as a patriot and
a persecutor, for he refused to obey the king's
summons to England, and he ordered Quaker wo-
men to be whipped through the country-side.

The next generation, born in the colony, were
generally of a narrower type than their fathers,
though in their turn they took up the work of
the new and making world with force and con-
science; and the second Hathorne, John, of fanat-
ical memory, was as characteristically a latter-day
Puritan as his father had been a pioneer. He
served in the council and the field, but he left a
name chiefly as a magistrate. His duty as judge
fell in the witchcraft years, and under that adver-
sity of fortune he showed those qualities of the
Puritan temperament which are most darkly re-
called; he examined and sentenced to death sev-
eral of the accused persons, and bore himself so
inhumanely in court that the husband of one of the
sufferers cursed him, -- it must have been dramati-
cally done to have left so vivid a mark in men's
minds, -- him and his children's children. This
was the curse that lingered in the family memory
like a black blot in the blood, and was ever after
used to explain any ill luck that befell the house.

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