Nathaniel Silsbee
Nathanial Silsbee (January 14, 1773 – July 14, 1850) was an American politician from Massachusetts.
Silsbee was born in Salem, Massachusetts to Capt. Nathanial Silsbee and Sarah Beckett. On December 12, 1802 Silsbee married Mary Crowinishield.
Silsbee went to sea and became a sea captain, ship owner and merchant; he held several local offices in Salem and Boston, Massachusetts.
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“There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,—why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,—that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House.”
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