So far as I know he never visited at the houses of his neighbors and never went to town-meeting.

The latter was a deadly sin in the eyes of his democratic neighbors.

Mr.Emerson induced him, one evening, to be one of a small company at his house.
But Hawthorne kept silent and at last went to the window and looked out at the stars.

One of the ladies said to the person next her: "How well he rides his horses of the night." He was very fond of long walks, and of rowing on the river with Thoreau and Ellery Channing.
The Old Manse was built in 1759 by the Rev.Daniel Bliss for his daughter Phoebe on her marriage to the Rev.William Emerson.

She was grandmother of Waldo Emerson.