[PAR] [TLE] Boston martyrs [SEP] The Boston martyrs is the name given in Quaker tradition to the three English members of the Society of Friends, Marmaduke Stephenson, William Robinson and Mary Dyer, and to the Friend William Leddra of Barbados, who were condemned to death and executed by public hanging for their religious beliefs under the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659, 1660 and 1661.  Several other Friends lay under sentence of death at Boston in the same period, but had their punishments commuted to that of being whipped out of the colony from town to town. [PAR] [TLE] Mary Dyer [SEP] Mary Dyer, born Marie Barrett (c. 1611 – 1 June 1660), was an English and colonial American Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony.  She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs.
[PAR] [TLE] Boston martyrs [ SEP ] The Boston martyrs is the name given in Quaker tradition to the three English members of the Society of Friends , Marmaduke Stephenson , William Robinson and Mary Dyer , and to the Friend William Leddra of Barbados , who were condemned to death and executed by public hanging for their religious beliefs under the legislature of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1659 , 1660 and 1661 . Several other Friends lay under sentence of death at Boston in the same period , but had their punishments commuted to that of being whipped out of the colony from town to town . [PAR] [TLE] Mary Dyer [ SEP ] Mary Dyer , born Marie Barrett ( c. 1611 – 1 June 1660 ) , was an English and colonial American Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston , Massachusetts Bay Colony , for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony . She is one of the four executed Quakers known as the Boston martyrs .
The Boston Martyrs were executed for disobeying a law banning them from where?
The Boston Martyrs were executed for disobeying a law banning them from where ?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony