A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Dyer, Mary
DYER, MARY,
Was the wife of William Dyer, who removed from Massachusetts to Rhode Island in 1638. Having been sentenced to execution for "rebellious sedition, and obtruding herself after banishment upon pain of death," she was reprieved at the request of her son, on condition that she departed in forty-eight hours, and did not return. She returned, and was executed June 1st., 1660. She was a Quakeress, and, in the estimation of her friends, a martyr.