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been made by the several owners ; the land, on which it 

 stands, was, originally, part of the grant to Joseph 

 Hardy, who conveyed it Aug. 7, 1685, to his son-in-law, 

 Benjamin Pickman ; B. Pickman's wife, Elizabeth, was 

 daughter of Joseph Hardy ; Joshua Pickman, a son of 

 Benjamin, conveyed the same to Jonathan Phelps, June 

 22, 1745, he with his wife, Judith, transferred it to their 

 son-in-law, Daniel Hathorne, Sept. 28, 1772. Rachel, 

 the wife of the grantee, being the daughter of the 

 grantors. This estate remained in the family until 1850, 

 when it was sold by the heirs to Isaac Gushing. 



Soon after the death of Capt. Nathaniel Hathorne, 

 which took place at Surinam, in the spring of 1808, the 

 mother went with her children to the family of her father, 

 Richard Manning, at the Manning house, No. 10 Herbert 

 street — this estate extended through to Union street, 

 adjoining that of his birthplace. There they lived till 

 October, 1818, when they went to Raymond, Me., where 

 his grandfather, in connection with his uncle Richard, and 

 others of the family, had made very extensive invest- 

 ments in lands. Hawthorne lived here about a year in a 

 large house built near the shore of Sebago Lake, by his 

 uncle, Robert Manning, in the expectation that the Man- 

 ning family would remove from Salem to Raymond. 

 Hawthorne returned to Salem to attend school, in the 

 autumn of 1819, living again in the family of his grand- 

 mother Manning, and during the vacations, whilst a stu- 

 dent at Bowdoin College, also after his graduation. In 

 December, 1828, he and his mother removed to North 

 Salem, to a house built and owned by Robert Manning, 

 adjoining his own residence on Dearborn street. In De- 

 cember, 1832, they moved again to the ancestral man- 

 sion in Herbert street. About 1836 he went to Boston 

 to edit a magazine, and after a short residence, returned 



