Statue of Mary Dyer in front of the State House.
Mary Barrett Dyer (c. 1611 — June 1, 1660) was an
English Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston,
Massachusetts Bay Colony (now in present-day Massachusetts),
for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from
the colony. She is one of the four executed Quakers known
as the Boston martyrs.
A bronze statue of her by Quaker sculptor Sylvia Shaw
Judson stands in front of the Massachusetts State House in
Boston; a copy stands in front of the Friends Center in
downtown Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and another in front of
Stout Meetinghouse at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.
Photo 447, April 2012