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Anne Hutchinson, born July 1591 and died August 1643, was a colonial religious dissenter. She was the defendant in the most famous of the trials involving religious dissent in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Massachusetts Bay was settled so the Puritans could freely and perfectly practice their religion. Religious liberty was not part of the Puritan faith, and women were to play a submissive and supporting role in society. Hutchinson had religious meetings in her home, educating women on the flaws in the Puritan way, and eventually attracting 60-80 men and women every week. A group of elders became alarmed, and she was eventually summoned by the court and put on trial for disregarding the boundaries of a Puritan woman. This is an early example of wanting religious freedom, and fighting for religious rights.

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The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants who set out to purify the Church of England from its Catholic practices. they were at their strongest in the 16th and 17th centuries. Puritanism was originally founded as an activist movement in this sense. They were extremely restricted by practice of religion laws in England. Never declared an official religious division within Protestantism. Their laws were strict. Puritan laws dictated business and social relations, religious affairs, how to dress, invaded the home circle and family relations as well. There were laws to forbid the wearing of lace, and dictating the length and width of a woman's sleeve. It was illegal for a man to have long hair, smoke in the street, or to court a woman without her parents blessing. You were also not allowed to kiss your wife in public. The biggest thing to make Puritanism significant was their emphasis on education. They forced schools to be built within every town, and the first college in America (Harvard College, now Harvard University) was named after a Puritan, John Harvard. They also began the idea of grandparents.

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King Phillip's War lasted from June 1675 to April 12, 1678. This war is said to the single greatest calamity to occur in 17th century Puritan New England, and is considered to be the deadliest war in the history of European settlement in North America in proportion to the population. 12 towns were destroyed, more took significant damage, economy ruined, population deteriorated, and they lost 10 percent of all men able to serve the military. This war is important because it started the development of the individual American identity. colonists had to deal with the aftermath and the war without much help from the motherland, and this is what gave them an identity separate from those in Britain.

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Tituba was an enslaved woman owned by Reverend Samuel Parris, said to be a South American Native and sailed from Barbados to the United States with Parris, however her origins are uncertain. Born in 1674 (specific date unknown), she was the first person to be accused of witchcraft. she was accused by Reverend Parris' daughter and niece, beat until she confessed, and then imprisoned. She was then bought by someone whose name wasn't recorded, and taken from Salem. Her death date is unknown.

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Thomas Danforth, born November 20, 1623, was a Magistrate during the Salem Witch Trials. He was also a politician and landowner, and was neither a an accuser or someone who was persecuted during the trials. He is recorded to have played a role in putting an end to the Witch Trials. He was in his early 70s during the Witch Trials, and died on November 5, 1699.

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Samuel Parris was a Minister during the Salem Witch Trials. Born in London, England in 1653 (exact date unknown), he moved to Boston in the early 1660s. He was part of the events leading up to the Salem Witch Trials. They began when his daughter Elizabeth Parris and her cousin (his niece) Abigail Williams accused his slave Tituba of witchcraft. Parris went along with the accusations, and beat Tituba until she confessed to being a witch. He was likely 39-40 years old during the Witch Trials, and died on February 27, 1720, at 66 or 67 years of age.

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Giles Corey was a farmer born on September 11, 1611 in Northampton, United Kingdom. He was accused of witchcraft, and when he was arrested he refused to enter a plea of guilty or innocent. He was then subjected to execution by pressing, which was really a tactic they thought would force him to plead. This is the only example of pressing in American history. He died after three days of torture. At the time of the Salem Witch Trials, he was 81 years old, and died on September 19, 1692.

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Born in 1652 (specific date is unknown), she was the wife of John Proctor II, farmer and tavern keeper in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. She was accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch trials, however her execution was delayed because she was pregnant. Her specific death date is unknown, but she is suspected to have died sometime after September 1699. I predict she was around 40 years old during the Salem Witch Trials.