In which colony was Mary Dyer executed?
New York
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Virginia
Rhode Island
Answer
Mary Dyer was executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony for repeatedly defying a Puritan law that banned Quakers from the colony. She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs.
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