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John Hathorne
Justice of the Salem witch trials
In office May 1692 – June 1692
Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature
In office 1702–1712
Personal details
Born
Baptized August 2, 1641 Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died
May 10, 1717(1717-05-10) (aged 75) Salem, Massachusetts
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.
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Sarah Good was the first interrogated and held to her innocence. Judge JohnHathorne directed all "the child look upon her and see if this were the person...
charged with witchcraft and hanged. Judge JohnHathorne One of the two judges presiding over the court. Hathorne is a deeply pious man whose blind faith...
(Bassett) Proctor were arrested in April, they were brought before JohnHathorne and Jonathan Corwin at a meeting in Salem Town. The men were both local...
March 24: Corwin and Hathorne examine Rebecca Nurse and Dorothy Good. March 26: JohnHathorne, Jonathan Corwin and Rev. John Higginson question Dorothy...
Good's first name was incorrectly written as "Dorcas" by Magistrate JohnHathorne on the warrant for her arrest dated March 23, 1692, but was correctly...
because of the actions of two of his ancestors, JohnHathorne and his father William. William Hathorne was a judge who earned a reputation for cruelly...
Indians and Puritan Fantasies. Page 158. Retrieved on 8 Feb. 2021. "JohnHathorne and Jonathan Corwin must have known that a day or two before the questioning...
Bartholomew Gedney Samuel Sewall JohnHathorne Jonathan Corwin Peter Sergeant William Stoughton, Chief Justice Thomas Danforth John Richards Waitstill Winthrop...
the Salem witch trials, at which Hawthorne's great-great-grandfather JohnHathorne was a judge, guilt over which inspired the author to change his family's...
herself with remarkable eloquence: when she was asked by the magistrates JohnHathorne and Jonathan Corwin how far she had complied with Satan, she replied...
her. Mercy Lewis called out, "There's a man he whispered in her ear." JohnHathorne asked Lewis if the man was Satan, then shortly Ann Putnam Jr. cried...
a witch. She was ordered arrested on April 30, 1692, by magistrates JohnHathorne and Jonathan Corwin, after Jonathan Walcott and Thomas Putnam of Salem...
judges of the early proceedings in Salem, often signing his name under JohnHathorne.) The quorum was five of these seven. It was dissolved by Governor Phips...
Arnold being out "on other business"), the judge enters last. It is JohnHathorne, who presided at the Salem witch trials. The trial is rigged against...
Bristol, Maine. In the English Province of Massachusetts Bay. Colonel JohnHathorne and Major Benjamin Church were the leaders of the New England force...
as part of the Salem witch trials of 1692. In her testimony to Judge JohnHathorne, she had spoken of "lines and curves that could be made to point out...
age 71, she was one of the oldest accused. The examining magistrates, JohnHathorne and Jonathan Corwin, who normally regarded the guilt of the accused...
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