{"id":3028,"date":"2013-05-31T08:15:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T12:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2013-05-31T12:52:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T16:52:22","slug":"the-hanging-of-mary-dyer-by-joann-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3028","title":{"rendered":"The Hanging of Mary Dyer by Jo Ann Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 1 is a sad anniversary in New England history. On that day in 1660 Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for defying the Puritan government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s order of banishment on pain of death. What events led to the execution of that highly respected woman, and what does Mary Dyer have to do with my favorite Rhode Island obsession, Herodias Long?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Some quick background on what the Puritans were thinking when they hanged Mary. Decades earlier they had watched political, financial, and religious harassment by King Charles I and the Church of England escalate. Then the Pilgrims, a Puritan sect who had fled first to Holland, settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620.<\/span><\/div>\n
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\"Winthrop,