John Hathorne

	Description: Gravestone of Col. John Hathorne, located in the Old Burial Ground, Salem, Massachusetts. Hathorne served as a magistrate on the Court of Oyer and Terminer, the special witch trials court in Salem. He was the most active interrogator of the defendants in court. The stone reads: "Here lyes interd ye Body of Col John Hathorne, Esqr Aged 76 years who died May 10, 1717." Source: Photograph by Benjamin C. Ray, 1999
	Caption: "Oh, give me leave to pray!" Description: This scene, set in the Salem Village meeting house, shows Judge John Hathorne and the Rev. Cotton Mather interrogating Martha Corey, who stands in the dock with her hands raised in prayer, with Mary Walcott, her accuser, sitting in a chair. Source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Giles Corey of Salem Farms," in The Poetical Works of Longfellow. Houghton Mifflin Boston, 1902. Artist, S. S. Kilburn, 1880, p. 747.
	Description: Wax figure of magistrate John Hathorne outside the Salem Wax Museum of Witches and Seafarers. Source: Photograph by Benjamin C. Ray, 1999
	Description: Wax figure of magistrate John Hathorne appears to beckon to tourists as they enter the Salem Wax Museum of Witches and Seafarers. Source: Photograph by Benjamin C. Ray, 2001.