My Kinsman, Major Molinaux (Unabridged‪)‬

My Kinsman, Major Molineux is a short story that Hawthorne wrote in 1831.

The setting is before the American Revolution when Robin, a youth arrives in Boston seeking his kinsman, Major Molineux, who is an official in the British Colonial government and has promised him work. Yet no one in town tells him where the major is and he begins to hear some strange stories and finally meets his kinsman under very unusual circumstances.