. Boston, a guide book . ^tt-h. -,,t where his son, William W. The + marks the office occupied by Hawthorne ,^, ,i , j , , Story, the poet and sculptor,was born. On Mall Street, the second street from this side, the houseNo. 14 was Hawthorne^s Mall Street Housey where The Scarlet Letter waswritten. The study here was the front room in the third story. From the west side of the square take Brown Street to St. PetersStreet, thence pass to Federal Street, and so to Washington Streetagain by Town House Square. On Howard Street, north from BrownStreet, is the Prescott Schoolhouse, said to be near t
. Boston, a guide book . ^tt-h. -,,t where his son, William W. The + marks the office occupied by Hawthorne ,^, ,i , j , , Story, the poet and sculptor,was born. On Mall Street, the second street from this side, the houseNo. 14 was Hawthorne^s Mall Street Housey where The Scarlet Letter waswritten. The study here was the front room in the third story. From the west side of the square take Brown Street to St. PetersStreet, thence pass to Federal Street, and so to Washington Streetagain by Town House Square. On Howard Street, north from BrownStreet, is the Prescott Schoolhouse, said to be near the site of the placewhere Giles Corey, the last victim of the witchcraft frenzy, was pressedto death. On Federal Street is the site of the Witchcraft Jail of i6g2, covered by the house (No. 2) of the historicalscholar, Abner C. Goodell. In this jail the persons accused of witch-craft were confined, and from it the condemned were taken to the placeof execution. Some of the timbers of the old jail are in the SALEM 165 On Washington Street, just about where Federal Street enters, is thesite of Governor Endicotfs faire house. At the southern comer of Wash-ington and Church streets stood the Bishop House, where in 1692 lived Edward and Bridget Bishop, thelatter the first witchcraft victim to be hanged. About opposite, on thewest side of Washington Street, near Lynde Street, was the House of Nicholas iVoyes, minister of the first church at the time ofthe witchcraft delusion, and a firm believer in witchcraft. In the middleof the street here stood the Court House of i6g2, where the witchcraft trials were held. In thepresent Court House, at the end of Washington Street, facing FederalStreet, are Witchcraft Documents and Relics, in the custody of the clerk of thecourts. Among these are the manuscript records of the testimonytaken at the trials, the death warrant of Bridget Bishop, with SheriffCorwins return thereon, recording that he had caused her to be hangedby the neck
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