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Mary Dyer lived in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony. She violated a rule forbidding Quakers from living in the colony. Mary was a Puritan, but converted and became a Quaker. As a result of violating the law, she was hanged. She is famous for being one of the "Boston Martyrs."

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