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"In the Massachusetts Bay colony, Friends (Quakers) were banished on pain of death - some (most famously Mary Dyer) were hanged on Boston Common for returning to preach their beliefs." (from the Wikipedia entry "Religious Society of Friends"

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Quakers were welcomed in nearby Rhode Island, and in the first hundred years of its existence 36 of the governors of that state were Quakers.

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