What group of executed Quakers does Mary Dyer belong to?
Boston martyrs
Philadelphia martyrs
New York martyrs
Salem martyrs
Answer
Mary Dyer is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs. They were hanged in Massachusetts Bay Colony for defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.
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