Elizabeth Clarke (Manning) Hathorne (1780 - 1849)

Born 6 Sep 1780 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Nathaniel Hathorne — married 2 Aug 1801 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Aug 1849 at age 68 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth (Betsey) Clarke Manning, was born in 1780, the second daughter of Richard and Miriam Manning.

After her family moved to Salem, Elizabeth (Betsey) Clarke Manning attended East Church in Salem, the liberal and Unitarian church presided over by Dr. William Bentley, and she was a participant in Bentley's singing school in 1792. Betsey Manning married Captain Nathaniel Hathorne (1775-1808) on August 2, 1801. Hathorne lived on Union St. in Salem, one street over from Herbert St. where Betsey lived with her family. Her husband went to sea as a youth and was frequently away on long voyages. Their first child, Elizabeth, was born on March 7, 1802, while Hathorne was away on one such voyage. Hathorne was again away at sea when his second child, Nathaniel, was born in the Union Street house on July 4, 1804. The Hathorne's third child, Maria Louisa, was born on January 9, 1808, two weeks after Hathorne set sail on the journey to Surinam (Dutch Guiana) from which he would not return. That spring, after Betsey Manning Hathorne learned that her husband had died at sea, she moved with her children from the house on Union St. to the house on Herbert St. where they lived with her parents and her eight siblings, who ranged in age from seventeen to thirty-one. Thereafter, Betsey Clarke Manning Hathorne was frequently in the position of accepting the favors of her Manning relatives. Her brother, Robert, for example, built houses for her and her children on Dearborn St. in Salem and in Raymond, Maine.

Thus Hawthorne's mother was dependent upon the good graces of Manning relatives all of her life. Perhaps this, and the lifelong grief over her husband's death, partly explain the demeanor which, according to Edwin Haviland Miller in Salem Is My Dwelling Place, the Peabodys referred to as "'gloomy or melancholy'" but Betsey Hathorne's daughter, Elizabeth, labelled as merely "'serious'"

Burial

Howard Street Burial Ground, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Sources

• http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Life&Times/Family/Maternal/Introduction.html#ElizabethClarkeManning
• Bodge, George. Soldiers in King Philip's War Being a Critical Account of that War (Boston, Mass., 1906) Page 319.
• Cutter, William Richard. Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts (Lewis historical Publishing Co. - Boston, Mass., 1908,1910); Vol. 1, p.40
• Find A Grave: Memorial #10751127