Joshua Scottow

He acquired considerable wealth trading with Acadia, dealing in waterfront property, and developing frontier settlements near Scarborough, Maine.

He clashed with others in Scarborough: Scottow had a long-running legal battle with neighbor Andrew Alger over ownership of a flake yard and was twice summoned to court over potential involvement in the 1681 drowning death of Nathan Bedford.

[6] Around the same time of his election, Scottow seems to have felt pressured to retract his original support for Hibbins and issue an apology to the court.

This was less than two years after the infamous trials at Salem, which he addresses at length in his, Narrative of the Planting making this work an important contemporary source.

[8] He further blames a departure from the non-superstitious theology taught by Jean Calvin ("Geneva") and embraced by the earlier teachers:, "Can it be rationally supposed:?

In bringing the witchcraft trials to an end, Scottow seems to give credit to the relatively un-zealous leadership of the swashbuckling and non-literary governor, the native born William Phips "who being divinely destined, and humanely commissioned, to be the pilot and steersman of this poor be-misted and be-fogged vessel in the Mare Mortuum and mortiforous sea of witchcraft, and fascination; by heaven's conduct according to the integrity of his heart, not trusting the helm in any other hand, he being by God and their Majesties be-trusted therewith, he so happily shaped, and steadily steered her course, as she escaped shipwreck... cutting asunder the Circean knot of Inchantment... hath extricated us out of the winding and crooked labyrinth of Hell's meander.