History of New Jerusalem

The witch panic reaches New Jerusalem and Hekeziah Massey, accused of witchcraft, is sent to Salem for trail but disappears from her locked cell before she can be executed. Roulet and Colwen relocate permanently to New Jerusalem Township. An ancestor of Ronald Underwood Pitman is hung during the Witch Trials.

The Salem Witch Trials end.

Reverend Ward Phillips, great-great-grandson of Missituk Liberal Arts College’s first president, becomes head librarian of the college.

A meteorite falls on the farm of Noah Forrester near New Jerusalem, not close enough to town to be heard. News of it reaches New Jerusalem the next morning. The Forresters call on Missituk University. Father Dennis Mary Bradley, Mr. Edgar Wade, and Winfield Scott Lovecraft arrive promptly and visit the site, then return the next day when their first specimen fades away when placed inside a glass beaker.. They later claim the stone “evaporated.”

The Forresters all sicken and die; the federal government moves in and secures the farm.

Typhoid strikes New Jerusalem, killing many. At the height of the epidemic, an insane killer murders fifteen people before capture by police. He bears an odd resemblance to Dr. Allan Hallesley, former Dean of the School of Medicine and a recent typhoid victim.

A fire consumes the main Orne Library at Miskatonic University, destroying all of the upper levels, leaving only the basement levels intact. Dr. Hank Wantage dies while trying to save the Rare Book collection from the fire.

Dr. Cyrus Llanfer's catalogue of Missituk University's folkloric and occult books, as well as its incunabula, is published posthumously. Around this same time, Missituk University's foundations, libraries, and museums are extensively reorganized. Planning begins soon afterwards for a refurbished library building.