In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter what appears to be the author's attitude towards his Puritan ancestors?

As
Hawthorne begins, he tells his audience that new civilizations require two things from the
onset, a cemetary and a prision.  This suggests to his audience that he believes the Puritan
ancestors to be harsh and unforgiving people.  As the opening chapter continues by describing
the prision's door, it describes it as an ancient relic in the new world.  If everything in
Boston was built...