Close-up of the statue of Mary Dyer. Photo: Greg Peverill-Conti / flickr CC.
New England Quakers remember Mary Dyer
Friends in New England honour Mary Dyer on Religious Freedom Day
by Rebecca Hardy
26th January 2018
New England Quakers celebrated Religious Freedom Day last week (16 January) by paying tribute to Mary Dyer, a Quaker hung in Boston, Massachusetts, for her religious beliefs for repeatedly defying a law banning Friends entering the colony in the 1650s.
