When a Quaker woman entered Boston for the third or fourth time in protest, the Massachusetts Bay Puritan governor had her hanged in 1660. Mary Dyer went singing to her death.

The New England Puritans have been more blamed for their treatment of the Quakers than for anything else they did. It is that which is chiefly responsible for the charge of bigotry and religious ...

But the Puritan fathers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony did not countenance tolerance of opposing religious views. Their “city upon a hill” was a theocracy that brooked no dissent, religious ...

Blue laws began not with the Puritans but in England, in 1448, “when all England was Catholic.” Every American colony, Puritan and non-Puritan, Quakers included, had its quota of blue laws.

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Most do not realize the deep divisions that existed in Colonial America between the Anglicans who settled Virginia, the Puritans who settled New England, the Baptists who settled Rhode Island, the ...

This theme might seem most salient for Puritan ordered liberty and the reciprocal liberty of the Quakers. But John Randolph’s stress on duty suggests one way that the hegemonic liberty tradition could ...

In Puritan Massachusetts, Quakers risked having their ears cut off and their tongues "bored through with a hot iron," and they faced execution if they persisted in their blasphemy.