Quiz Answers

First I must give the professor a failing grade since two questions were posted incorrectly.

1) John Cotton, 1585 to 1652, was a clergyman in England and America.  By most accounts he was the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

2) John Wheelwright, 1592 to 1679, was a Puritan clergyman in England and America.  He was most noted for being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Antinomian controversy.  He later established the town of Exeter, NH.

3) Bryan Rossiter arrived in New England in 1630 on the ship Mary & John.  He was a medical doctor and moved to Guilford, CT in 1651.  He was not the coroner of Connecticut but was believed to have performed the first autopsy in Connecticut.

4) Mary Hutchinson was the wife of John Wheelwright.  She was not the sister of Anne Marbury but instead her sister-in-law.  She was the sister of William Hutchinson who was Anne Marbury's husband.

5) In 1692 during the Salem Witch Trials Mary Perkins was accused of being a witch.  She was about 77 years old at the time.  Over 100 of her neighbors signed a petition, at their own risk, stating that she could not be a witch.  The Witch Trials were coming to an end, at the time, and although convicted Mary was never punished.  She died in 1700.