Puritanic Punishments for Adultery

We know Hester's punishment was to wear the scarlet letter with all the social stigma that accompanied it. But wearing a token of one's adultery did not seem to be the norm in Puritan society. I was researching some of the consequences for adulterous women and came upon a whole bunch of different   punishments. For one woman around Hester's time, Mary Latham, execution resulted from several adulterous accusations. Interestingly, Hawthorne's ancestor was a magistrate in 1688 Salem, who sentenced a woman named Hester Craford to public whipping after bearing an illegitimate child. Do you think he was inspired by this story?