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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
X.} 1659. Sept. Quakerism was a capital crime. Of four persons, ordered to depart the jurisdiction on pain of death, Mary Dyar, a firm disciple of Ann Hutchinson, whose exile she had shared, and Nicholas Davis, obeyed. Marmaduke Stephenson and Wr their lives; instead of departing, they went from place to place to build up their friends in the faith. In October, Mary Dyar returned. Thus there were three persons arraigned on the sanguinary law. Robinson pleaded in his defence the special must men. Stephenson refused to speak till sentence had been pronounced; and then he imprecated a curse on his judges. Mary Dyar exclaimed, The will of the Lord be done, and returned to the prison full of joy. From the jail she wrote a remonstrancor Christ, said Robinson: We suffer not as evil-doers, but for conscience' sake, were the last words of his companion. Mary Dyar was reprieved; yet not till the rope had been fastened round her neck, and she had prepared herself for death. Transpo