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Mary Barrett was born in England in 1611. When she was twenty-two years old, she married William Dyer. Mary gave birth to a son also named William in London in 1634. He died in infancy. Mary and William were Puritans, a group of English Protestants who faced religious persecution in England because they did not comply with the rules of the ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Dyer, Mary. Unknown. England. June 1, 1660. Boston, Massachusetts. Quaker martyr. "In obedience to the will of the Lord God I came, and in His will I abide faithful to the death." Mary Dyer. M ary Dyer was an English Puritan (one who practices or preaches a strict moral and spiritual code) who emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony from ...
1 de jun. de 2017 · On this day in 1660, Mary Dyer was executed on the Boston Common for defying her banishment from Boston. Mary’s execution is one story in a larger narrative of frequent religious clashes in Boston's early days. Her death is often linked to the easing of anti-Quaker laws in Boston. Mary Dyer was born in England and emigrated to Boston with her ...
Mary Barrett Dyer (née Marie Barrett) (1611? - 1 er juin 1660) est une puritaine anglaise et une coloniale américaine devenue quaker qui fut pendue à Boston, dans la colonie de la baie du Massachusetts, pour avoir bravé à plusieurs reprises une loi puritaine qui bannissait les quakers de la colonie.Elle fait partie des quatre quakers exécutés et connus sous le nom de martyrs de Boston.
Monumento de Mary Dyer. Situada a la entrada del Centro de Amigos, la estatua de la mártir de Boston, Mary Dyer, transmite a los visitantes que este “es un lugar tanto de convicción como de contemplación”. El Centro de Amigos es un centro de actividad cuáquera en Filadelfia y en todo el mundo. Mary Dyer fue ahorcada en Boston en 1660 ...
Mary Dyer remained in England until 1657. The next year she travelled to Boston to protest the new law banning Quakers, and she was arrested and expelled from the colony. (Her husband, who had not become a Quaker, was not arrested.) Mary Dyer continued to travel in New England to preach Quakerism, and was arrested in 1658 in New Haven, Connecticut.
Mary Dyer era una Cuáquera que luchó por la libertad religiosa. En 1660 estas creencias fueron consideradas un crimen, y fue perseguida por practicar el Cuaquerismo y finalmente colgada por ello. La muerte de Mary Dyer como mártir tuvo una influencia significativa en la legalización de la libertad religiosa y la Declaración de Derechos de la Constitución.
