They might have been in the Middle Colonies just close enough to New England to worry that it might catch on, though.
Each colony had it's own unique charter granted by the King, and the colonies outside of New England were fiercely independent of New England and each other. That's where you got the strong "State's Rights" thing, it originated with the original colonial charters. Each colony (and what would eventually become states or commonwealths) basically ran as their own independent political units, basically countries unto themselves.
No colonist living outside of New England would have worried about witch trials spreading outside of New England...and that was especially true of the New Amsterdam/New York colony.
Puritans viewed New York as Sin City; just like how they'd objected to the Dutch allowing religious freedom in the Netherlands, they also disapproved of that same tolerance in New Amsterdam, a tolerance that continued when the English took over and renamed it New York.
Well into the 19th century, Massachusetts and Connecticut banned the celebration of Christmas, and looked askance at all the holiday merriment shenanigans occuring in our neighbor to the southwest. So no, puritan prejudices stayed within the confines of New England, and southern New England at that. You didn't find nearly as many puritanical prohibitions in Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine.
(A couple may have eventually run off and joined the Indians if they found an amenable nation, as some Muggle colonists also did - even further out of the Ministry's reach.)
I'd suspect that more than a few "mountain men", those early frontiersmen who spent most of their time trapping in and beyond the frontier, and spent more time amongst Indian tribes than with those of European extraction, were wizards... ;-)
But I stand by my assertion that many magikal folk could have been comfortable living in the more cosmopolitan colonial cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc.
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Each colony had it's own unique charter granted by the King, and the colonies outside of New England were fiercely independent of New England and each other. That's where you got the strong "State's Rights" thing, it originated with the original colonial charters. Each colony (and what would eventually become states or commonwealths) basically ran as their own independent political units, basically countries unto themselves.
No colonist living outside of New England would have worried about witch trials spreading outside of New England...and that was especially true of the New Amsterdam/New York colony.
Puritans viewed New York as Sin City; just like how they'd objected to the Dutch allowing religious freedom in the Netherlands, they also disapproved of that same tolerance in New Amsterdam, a tolerance that continued when the English took over and renamed it New York.
Well into the 19th century, Massachusetts and Connecticut banned the celebration of Christmas, and looked askance at all the holiday merriment shenanigans occuring in our neighbor to the southwest. So no, puritan prejudices stayed within the confines of New England, and southern New England at that. You didn't find nearly as many puritanical prohibitions in Vermont, New Hampshire, or Maine.
(A couple may have eventually run off and joined the Indians if they found an amenable nation, as some Muggle colonists also did - even further out of the Ministry's reach.)
I'd suspect that more than a few "mountain men", those early frontiersmen who spent most of their time trapping in and beyond the frontier, and spent more time amongst Indian tribes than with those of European extraction, were wizards... ;-)
But I stand by my assertion that many magikal folk could have been comfortable living in the more cosmopolitan colonial cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, etc.
I think Benjamin Franklin was a wizard. LOL