On this day, June 1, in 1660, American colonist Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for violating Massachusetts Bay Colony law by preaching Quakerism. Dyer was among a short list of outspoken women in the ...
PHILADELPHIA(AP) — Do Quakers quake? Do Quakers eat Quaker Oats? Are Quakers still around today? These are some of the questions that visitors often ask at the Arch Street Meeting House in Old City ...
Disembarking at Boston in 1656, Mary Fisher, “a religious maiden,” and her companion Ann Austin, Quakers, were welcomed by hangman, by gaoler. The hangman made a public bonfire of all books found in ...
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