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I was thinking along the lines of worrying that their nicely sinful cities would have a religious awakening - since it wasn't like people only started debating religion or only one tiny sect started burning witches only in tiny limited areas of Europe. It, well, spread across national and religious boundaries. (And they did have a Great Awakening just a few decades later, only fortunately it didn't involve hanging witches by the dozen.) Also, regardless of how likely it actually was that New York et al. would "get (anti-witch) religion," that doesn't necessarily indicate how likely the local magical population thought it was. Probably some were cavalier about it because of course New Yorkers would be too sensible for that, and some decided to move further west just in case, and everything in between (probably when you ask a dozen colonial wizards for their opinions, you'll get fifteen points of view) - but while the ones still living in cities might have felt okay about letting a few close friends/non-magical relatives in on it, I think they would still see discretion as generally a good plan.

I don't know, Franklin seems awfully sensible and inventive for a wizard from what we've seen :D Can you imagine anyone but Hermione telling everyone the benefits of "early to bed and early to rise"? (Well, maybe Dumbledore, but he wouldn't mean it.)