Mary Dyer

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Mary Dyer

Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; 1611 – 1660) was an English and colonial American Quaker who was hanged in Boston for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony. She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs.

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Mary Dyer, after being sentenced to death

"If you neither hear nor obey the Lord nor his servants, yet will he send more of his servants among you, so that your end shall be frustrated, that think to restrain... Read more.