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Mary Dyer (born Marie Barrett; c. 1611 – 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan-turned-Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony due to their theological expansion of the Puritan concept of a church of individuals regenerated by the Holy Spirit to the idea of the indwelling of the Spirit ...
The Dyer statue, along with the nearby equestrian statue of Joseph Hooker, remained open to the public even after the September 11 attacks in 2001 prompted state authorities to close the gates to the State House lawn, limiting access to statues of Anne Hutchinson, John F. Kennedy, Henry Cabot Lodge, Horace Mann and Daniel Webster.
The Boston martyrs is the name given in Quaker tradition [1] to the three English members of the Society of Friends, Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson and Mary Dyer, and to the Barbadian Friend William Leddra, who were condemned to death and executed by public hanging for their religious beliefs under the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659, 1660 and 1661.
English: Mary Dyer by Sylvia Shaw Judson - outside the Massachusetts State House, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Statue dedicated June 9, 1959. Statue dedicated June 9, 1959. This artwork is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963, with its copyright not renewed.
In 1635, Dyer and his wife sailed from England to New England. Mary was likely pregnant, or gave birth during the voyage, because on 20 December 1635, their son Samuel was baptized at the Boston church, the same month that the Dyers joined the church. [3] Dyer became a freeman of Boston on 3 March the following year. [1]
The most famous of the Boston Martyrs was executed on June 1, 1660. This was Mary Dyer, who was hanged from the oak by the Puritan government of Boston for repeatedly defying a law that banned Quakers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [16] [17] [18] [8] John Hancock's house across from the Boston Common in 1768
The Quaker "Mary Dyer led to execution on Boston Common, 1 June 1660. Sketch by unknown 19th century artist The Quaker "Mary Dyer being led to the gallows in Boston, 1 June 1660. Painted in 1905 by Howard Pyle (1853-1911) Seeking martyrdom, Christison and Leddra also returned to Boston.
Mary Dyer: Biography of a Rebel Quaker. Boston, Massachusetts: Brandon Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8283-1964-2. Rogers, Horatio (1896). Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, the Quaker Martyr That Was Hanged on Boston Common, June 1, 1660. Providence, RI: Preston and Rounds. ISBN 9780795014628. Online sources. Herman, Susan. "Whittier as Quaker".