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      Mary Crowninshield Silsbee

      Mary Crowninshield Silsbee

      1809-1887

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      Mary was the daughter of Senator Nathaniel Silsbee, who built the mansion on Salem Common in 1819. It was rumored that Mary was engaged to Nathaniel Hawthorne after she had a portrait painted depicting her with a mysterious hunter who resembled Hawthorne. Sophia Peabody threatened to “put Miss Mary out of the window” in a letter to her sister, and Hawthorne’s involvement with Mary ended soon thereafter.