Impulsively, Kit jumps into the water and retrieves the doll. As the small rowboat returns to the ship, a young girl named Prudence accidentally drops her doll in the water and begs her harsh mother, Goodwife Cruff, to get it back for her. She relocates to Wethersfield, Connecticut to live with her Aunt Rachel, Uncle Matthew, and her two cousins, Judith and Mercy, in their Puritan community.Ī brief stop is made in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, to pick up four new passengers. In April 1687, 16-year-old Katherine Tyler (known as Kit) leaves her home in Barbados after her grandfather dies and a 50-year-old man tries to marry her. The story takes place in late 17th-century New England. The Witch of Blackbird Pond is a children's novel by American author Elizabeth George Speare, published in 1958.
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