# Colonel Pyncheon — The House of the Seven Gables character guide

> Colonel Pyncheon in The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** old Colonel Pyncheon, the Colonel

**First appearance:** 0002-i-the-old-pyncheon-family

## Who they are

The ruthless Puritan founder of the Pyncheon family fortune and house.

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