Prudence Cruff Timeline and Summary

Prudence loses her doll in the river while on the Dolphin.
Kit retrieves Prudence’s doll.
Goodwife Cruff blocks Kit’s attempts to befriend Prudence.
Prudence and her mother, Goodwife Cruff, arrive in Wethersfield.
Kit sees Prudence at the door of the schoolroom and invites her to the meadows to learn to read.
Kit and Prudence have lessons under the Willow tree with Kit’s silver hornbook.
Kit introduces Prudence and Hannah.
Prudence tells Kit that she knows Nat.
Kit brings Prudence a copybook, quill pen, and bottle of ink. She teaches her to write her name.
Nat brings Prudence to Kit’s trial.
Prudence copies her name and reads from the Bible, saving Kit from charges of witchcraft.
Goodman Cruff approves of his daughter’s reading skills.