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Nathaniel HawthorneEssay Preview: Nathaniel HawthorneReport this essayNathaniel Hawthorne (1804 – 1864)Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, and raised by a widowed mother. His ancestors were some of the earliest settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Hathorne (the original spelling of the family name), one of his great-grandfathers, had served as a.