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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Quakers. (search)
ions of the country; and two or three fanatical young women outraged decency by appearing without clothing in the churches and in the streets, as emblems of the unclothed souls of the people ; while others, with loud voices, proclaimed that the wrath of the Almighty was about to fall like destructive lightning upon Boston and Salem. This conduct, and these indecencies, caused the passage of severe laws in Massachusetts against the Quakers. The first of the sect who appeared there were Mary Fisher and Ann Austin, who arrived at Boston from Barbadoes in September (N. S.), 1656. Their trunks were searched, and their books were burned by the common hangman before they were allowed to land. Cast into prison, their persons were stripped in a search for body-marks of witches. None were found, and they, being mild-mannered women, and innocent, were soon released and expelled from Massachusetts as heretics. Nine other men and women who came from London were similarly treated. Others
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
ehavior, and compelled to resign and throw himself on the mercies of the General Court......October, 1654 Charles Chauncy accepts presidency of Harvard College......November, 1654 Edward Winslow, one of the Mayflower's first passengers and governor of Plymouth, dies, aged sixty, on shipboard near Hispaniola, and is buried at sea......May 8, 1655 Mrs. Anne Hibbins, sister of Governor Bellingham and widow of a magistrate, is condemned and executed as a witch......1656 Two women, Mary Fisher and Ann Austin (Quakers), arrive from England and are landed at Boston......July, 1656 Eight more arrive in the Speedwell......Aug. 7, 1656 These were all imprisoned and banished without ceremony, and the masters of the vessels which brought them were placed under bonds to take them away......1656 At the next session of the General Court a penalty of £ 100 was imposed upon the master of any ship bringing Quakers within the jurisdiction; and all brought in were to be sent to jail