Mary barrett dyer biography
Mary barrett dyer descendants...
918: Mary Barrett Dyer
One of America’s First Religious Martyrs
Born: c.1611, England (Present-day England, United Kingdom)
Died: 1 June 1660, Boston, The Colony of Massachusetts (Present-day Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America)
Mary converted to Quakerism (or more correctly a member of the Society of Friends) after being born a Puritan.
Mary barrett dyer biography
She believed in Anne Hutchinson’s preaching and supported the message behind them (before she converted, both women still identified as Puritans at the time). Anne and Mary were therefore seen as dangerous outliers to the theocratic Puritan government in charge of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The dangerous words Anne and Mary preached? That god “spoke directly to individuals” rather than only speaking through members of the Clergy (Quote from "Quakers in the World" linked below).
Before she, her husband, Anne Hutchinson, and several others were banished from the colony, Mary gave birth to a stillborn deformed baby which was p