was very noble unto me and so were all that were about him... they do dread the name of God, many of them... There is a royal seed amongst them which in time God will raise. They are more near Truth than many nations; there is a love begot in me towards them which is endless, but this is my hope concerning them, that he who hath raised me to love them more than many others will also raise his seed in them unto which my love is. Nevertheless, though they be called Turks, the seed of them is near unto God, and their kindness hath in some measure been shown towards his servants. Later life In 1662 Mary Fisher married William Bayley of Poole, Dorset, a seafarer and Quaker preacher and writer who had been converted to Quakerism by George Fox in 1655. He died on a sea voyage from Barbados in 1675. She then married John Crosse at Southwark on 19 September 1678, with whom she and three children from her first marriage moved to Charleston, South Carolina. John Crosse died there in 1687, as his wife Mary herself did sometime between August and November 1698. Her remains were buried in the Quaker burial ground there, which was removed in 1967. The property she left on her death included a black slave. Some of her remains were relocated within the site, but most were removed to Court House Square, Charleston. See also The Examination of a Witch References External links Panels of the Quaker Tapestry - Panel 12 of the Quaker Tapestry is devoted to Mary Fisher. Essay on the Valiant Sixty Converts to Quakerism English Quakers American Quakers 1623 births 1698 deaths Quaker ministers 17th-century Quakers