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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.
Mary Parsons White Female Housewife Witchcraft 1651-05-29 Hanging Suffolk 18 Ann Hibbens White Female Widow Witchcraft 1656-06-19 Hanging Middlesex: 19 William Robinson: White Male ? Being a Quaker/Boston Martyr: 1659-01-22 Hanging Suffolk 20 Marmaduke Stevenson: White Male ? Being a Quaker/Boston Martyr 1659-01-22 Hanging Suffolk 21 Mary Dyer ...
William Dyer was baptized at Kirkby Laythorpe, Lincolnshire, England, on 19 September 1609, the son of William Dyer. [1] In 1625, while a teenager, he was apprenticed to Walter Blackborne, a fishmonger, and 16 years later, while he was in New England, he was taxed back in England as a member of the "Fishmonger's Company," though his profession before leaving there was that of a milliner. [1]
Mary Lou Retton is addressing her health issues after she was hospitalized for a rare form of pneumonia in fall 2023. ... Retton’s daughters Emma Jean Kelley and McKenna Kelley shared the news ...
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".
The former professional footballer sometimes felt he lost the trust of those closest to him due to the articles, claiming it had impacted his career.