Mary Dyer, 1610? - 1660: A Quaker Martyr
"Do you think you can restrain those whom you call 'cursed Quakers' from
coming among you, by anything you can do to them! God hath a Seed here among you
for whom we have suffered and yet suffer and the Lord of the harvest will send
more laborers to gather this seed."
Mary Dyer ... first ran afoul of Massachusetts authorities for supporting theological dissenter Anne Hutchinson. As a result Dyer and her family were forced to move to Rhode Island in 1638. Converted to Quakerism in England in the 1650s, Dyer returned to New England and was three times arrested and banished from Massachusetts for spreading Quaker principles. Returning to Massachusetts a fourth time, she was hanged on June 1, 1660.