Dyer is released after her husband writes…
September 1659 CE
Dyer is released after her husband writes a letter to Endicott.
All of the Quakers are on September 12 of this year released from prison and banished, under pain of death.
Robinson and Stephenson stay and continue to preach.
They and Holder are put back in prison, prompting three women—Mary Dyer, Hope Clifton, and Holder’s future wife, Mary Scott—to come and visit them and plead for their release.
Dyer is arrested yet again for speaking to Holder through the bars of his cell.
A few Quakers will be executed by the Puritan leaders, usually for ignoring and defying orders of banishment; Mary Dyer will be thus executed in 1660.
Three other martyrs to the Quaker faith in Massachusetts are William Robinson, Marmaduke Stephenson, and William Leddra.
These events will be described in 1661 by Edward Burrough in A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, called Quakers, in New-England, for the Worshipping of God.