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Colonial New England Facts
Brain Snacks
About 95 percent of all known witchcraft accusations and over 90 percent of executions for witchcraft in the British North American colonies occurred in New England. The ratio of English people in...
Quotes
"Samuel Shattuck testified, that in the year 1680, this Bridget Bishop, often came to his house upon such frivolous and foolish errands, that they suspected she came indeed with a purpose of mischi...
Statistics
English colonists in North America in 1625: 2,000 …in 1700: 250,000 …in 1750: over 1 million Rate at which the population doubled during the eighteenth century: every 25 years Average t...
Glossary
Apalachee Indians, Apalachee, Apalachees A tribe based around Apalachee Bay in northwestern Florida who spoke a Muskogean language. They were successful cultivators of corn and squash who managed t...
