Kit Tyler did something daring and bold. She moved. This may not seem like a lot, but Mistress Katherine Tyler moved from the warm island of Barbados to the cold New England colony of Connecticut. The strict puritans here were nothing like the rich landowners she knew in her old home. Her grandfather had been one of the most well known and prosperous of them all but with him dead and her parents already gone, she was forced to leave or stay in Barbados and marry a man she didn’t like, and twice her age. So she moved into her Aunt Rachel’s house with her cousins Mercy, Judith, and her uncle Matthew. Their lifestyle was a lot different than she was used to and they did chores she couldn’t do. First she tried to do the field work her servants …show more content…
No matter how hard she tried she could not fit in with the lifestyle of the puritans. She did nothing right. She couldn’t spin yarn with mercy and she couldn’t work outside in the field. She ran away. She went to blackbird meadow and she and lay down in the grass and cried. A woman came by and found her. She took kit to her home. Her name was Hannah. Kit Made two new friends, Nathaniel Eaton, the first mate of the ship she came on, and Hannah Tupper, a widow that the local puritans called a witch. She had a house next to blackbird pond. She was a Quaker and helped kit with all her problems. Kit also met a boy named William, who started courting her. Kit didn’t love William but everyone knew that he would get around to the proposal. Kit also met a girl named prudence and started teaching her to read and write even though her parents didn’t want her to learn. Kit took prudence to see Hannah and prudence liked her immediately. Kit also learned that Nathaniel knew Hannah. They all grew closer and helped Hannah out. One day, the children of the town started to get measles. They blamed it on Hannah Tupper because the townsfolk thought she was a witch. They got torches and went to capture her and drive her out her