Mary Dyer
1611 to 1660
5 documented presences
5 places
Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Mary Dyer across 5 places, from 1643 to 1660. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
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 chuWikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Mary Dyer was documented, and when
1643year
Rhode Islandattested
“William Dyer was the messenger who returned to Rhode Island the following February, bringing the news of the return of the colony to the Williams Patent of 1643.”
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1658year
New Englandattested
“Dyer nevertheless continued to travel in New England to preach her Quaker message, and in early 1658 was arrested in the New Haven Colony, and then expelled for preaching her "inner light" belief, and the notion that women and men stood…”
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1658year
New Havenattested
“Dyer nevertheless continued to travel in New England to preach her Quaker message, and in early 1658 was arrested in the New Haven Colony, and then expelled for preaching her "inner light" belief, and the notion that women and men stood…”
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April 1660month
Bostonattested
“She was determined to return to Boston to force the authorities to either change their laws or to hang a woman, and she left Shelter Island in April 1660 focused on this mission.”
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April 1660month
Shelter Island, New Yorkattested
“She was determined to return to Boston to force the authorities to either change their laws or to hang a woman, and she left Shelter Island in April 1660 focused on this mission.”
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Places Mary Dyer is documented in
Boston1 presence · 1660New Haven1 presence · 1658
New England1 presence · 1658
Rhode Island1 presence · 1643
Shelter Island, New York1 presence · 1660
Other places tied to Mary Dyer in the record
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1633year
Bostonmentioned
“In 1633, one of England's most noted Puritan clergymen, John Cotton, arrived in Boston and quickly became the second minister (called "teacher") in Boston's church.”
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27 October 1633exact date
Westminstermentioned
“Mary was married to William Dyer, a fishmonger and milliner, on 27 October 1633 at the parish church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, in Westminster, Middlesex, now a part of Central London.”
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1635year
New Englandmentioned
“In 1635, Mary and William Dyer sailed from England to New England.”
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1635year
Englandmentioned
“In 1635, Mary and William Dyer sailed from England to New England.”
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20 December 1635exact date
Bostonmentioned
“Mary was likely pregnant or gave birth during the voyage because on 20 December 1635 their son Samuel was baptized at the Boston church, exactly one week after the Dyers joined the church.”
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March 1638month
Bostonmentioned
“While William Dyer appeared in the Boston records on several occasions, Mary Dyer had not caught the attention of the Massachusetts authorities until March 1638 as the Antinomian controversy came to an end.”
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1642year
Bostonmentioned
“Soon, the story took on a life of its own, and in 1642 it was printed in London under the title Newes from New-England of a Most Strange and Prodigious Birth, brought to Boston in New-England.”
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1642year
Londonmentioned
“Soon, the story took on a life of its own, and in 1642 it was printed in London under the title Newes from New-England of a Most Strange and Prodigious Birth, brought to Boston in New-England.”
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1642year
New-Englandmentioned
“Soon, the story took on a life of its own, and in 1642 it was printed in London under the title Newes from New-England of a Most Strange and Prodigious Birth, brought to Boston in New-England.”
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1644year
Englandmentioned
“In 1644 Weld, who was still in England, took Winthrop's account of the Antinomian Controversy, and published it under one title, and then added a preface of his own and republished it under the title A Short story of the Rise, reign and…”
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April 1651month
Englandmentioned
“He sailed to England to present his case, and in April 1651, the Council of State of England gave him the commission he sought, making him governor-for-life of the island.”
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April 1652month
Englandmentioned
“Because of recent hostilities between the English and the Dutch, the three men, once in England, did not meet with the Council of State on New England until April 1652.”
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1656year
Bostonmentioned
“When the first Quakers arrived in Boston in 1656 there were no laws yet enacted against them, but this quickly changed, and punishments were meted out with or without the law.”
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1657year
Bostonmentioned
“In early 1657 Dyer returned to New England with the widow Ann Burden, who came to Boston to settle the estate of her late husband.”
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1657year
June 1658month
19 October 1658exact date
1659year
June 1659month
1660year
1661year
9 September 1661exact date
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