Your wounds are deep, and your strength is failing fast; yet, if you hasten onward alone, you may be preserved. For me there is no hope; and I will await death here" (53)." This quote exemplifies the importance the historic "Lovell's Fight" had on the creation of this tale. Without this historic battle Roger Malvin would not have died, Rueben would not have broken his promise and Hawthorne would not have a plot. Therefore, Hawthorne as a historian is extremely relevant to the development of "Roger Malvin's Burial," and the sinful dishonest theme that destroys Rueben's soul. .
"My Kinsman Major Molineux" is, by almost all accounts, the masterpiece of the "Provinical Tales," writes Colacurcio, in "The Province of Piety." "My Kinsman Major Molineux" is also unarguably more historically obvious than that of "Roger Malvin's Burial," continues Colacurcio (130). "My Kinsman Major Molineux," exemplifies the true political conflicts that transpired during the American Revolution. Robin comes to the New England Colony to find his surrogate father. However, after spending an entire evening being laughed at, ridiculed, and isolated by the people of New England, he discovers the root of their scorn. His kinsman was a Torres, which was tabooed during the American Revolution. Major Molineux was an outcaste for his conflicting beliefs, which is why Robin was tormented for his association with Molineux. Hawthorne took this plot from a real conflict during the American Revolution, thus signifying the historical references used to manifest "My Kinsman Major Molineux." Robin witnesses the extremity of his kinsman's isolation when, "The trumpets vomited a horrid breath, and held their peace; the shouts and laughter of the people died away, and there remained only a universal hum, nearly allied to silence. Right before Robin's eyes was an uncovered cart. There torches blazed the brightest, there the moon shone out like day, and there, in tar-and-feathery dignity, sate his kinsman, Major Molineux" (48)!.
