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possession of this estate, and the mansion in which she 

 resided was a few rods w^est of this spot. She first married 

 Capt. Joseph Gardner, who was killed, Dec. 19, 1675, at 

 the great Narraganset Swamp fight, in King Philip's war. 

 Secondly, she married Simon Bradstreet, and there the old 

 Nestor governor of Massachusetts lived and died. The 

 house was then knoAvn as the Bradstreet mansion, and was 

 taken down about 1750. Gov. Bradstreet had previously 

 married Ann, daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley. She is 

 the most distinguished of the early matrons by her liter- 

 ary powers ; a volume of her poems is now extant. 



Nearly opposite the last named house, on the w^estern 

 corner of Liberty street, was the residence of Major Wil- 

 liam Hathorne, who came to Salem in 16^6, and from 

 that date his name appears in our records as holding im- 

 portant positions, — Commissioner, Speaker of the House 

 of Representatives, counsel in cases before the courts, 

 judge on the bench, soldier commanding important and 

 difiicult expeditions, etc. 



Johnson, in his " Wonder- Working Providence," thus 

 says of him : "Yet, through the Lord's mercy, we still re- 

 taine among our democracy the godly Captaine William 

 Hathorne, whom the Lord hath imbued with a quick ap- 

 prehension, strong memory and rhetorick, volubility of 

 speech which hath caused the people to make use of him 

 often in public service especially when they have had to 

 do with any foreign government." 



He died in IGSl. His son John seemed to have in- 

 heritetl many of his traits of character, and to have suc- 

 ceeded in all his public honors, and held a like prominent 

 position in public affairs till his decease, which occurred in. 

 1717. In an easterly direction, on Union street, in a 

 small two-story gaml)rel-r()()red house, a descendant in 

 the sixth generation was born, in 1804, whose name has 



