Mary Dyer, English-American martyr (born 1611)

Mary Dyer

American Quaker martyr (c. 1611 – 1660)

Mary Dyer 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…