Sexual Situations

• Mention is made of a character running away with a man "without her father's blessing".

Violence

• A mother hits her child.
• Boys have a fistfight.
• A mother is accused of beating her child.
• A passerby throws an apple at a character.
• Three seamen are threatened with 30 lashes if they re-enter the town.
• Men attempt to shoot a cat.
• Branding and having an ear cut off as punishment are mentioned.

Drugs/Alcohol

• none

Race Issues

• Kit discusses owning slaves.
• Slave transportation conditions are discussed.
• A town citizen fights American Indians.

Religion

• Quakers are discriminated against (suffering beatings, brandings and hanging) because of their religious beliefs.
• A character wishes for a church of his own.
• Some characters believe in witches.
• Kit reads about the Devil in a book.
• A character says the proper use for reading is to improve the sinful nature.
• Kit reads out of the Bible.
• The Biblical parable of The Good Samaritan is acted out.

Politics

• Kit calls Puritans "roundheads", "traitors" and "murderers".
• There is dicussion of loyalty to the British king and the new British governor.