#Conservapedia pointed out that the great [[American]] novelist [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] felt that his family was cursed by its role in the [[Salem Witch Trials]], where his direct ancestor was a leading judge who never recanted his role. When Hawthorne was 4 years old, his father died at sea. | #Conservapedia pointed out that the great [[American]] novelist [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] felt that his family was cursed by its role in the [[Salem Witch Trials]], where his direct ancestor was a leading judge who never recanted his role. When Hawthorne was 4 years old, his father died at sea. |