Mary Jeanne Dyer

Mary Dyer

Mary Dyer, born Marie Barrett (c. 1611 1 June 1660) was an English and colonial American Puritan turned Quaker who was hanged in Boston, Massachusetts...

A Portraiture of Shakerism

Practical Bookkeeping for the Small Business: Complete Information on How to Keep Accurate Financial Records With This Easily Learned System That Ca

Practical Bookkeeping for the Small Business: Complete Information on How to Keep Accurate Financial Records with This Easily Learned System That Can Be Adapted to Any Small Business

Year of Jubilee: A Guideboook for Women Reinventing Their Lives

At 50, the author lost her job in a social service agency. Rather than rejoining the rat race on another wheel, she decided to take a year "off," to examine her principles, her spiritual beliefs. Was the universe really abundant? Did it really want to give her what she needed? Mornings, she tend...

Shaking the Faith: Women, Family, and Mary Marshall Dyer's Anti-Shaker Campaign, 1815-1867

In 1815, Mary Marshall Dyer renounced her Shaker beliefs and departed from the religious community in Enfield, New Hampshire, that she had called her home, leaving behind her husband and five children. Angry and alone, Dyer embarked on a fifty year public campaign against the Shakers in an effort to...

The Sister of Mary Dyer: The High Price of Freedom: A Biographical Novel

A fascinating blend of little known history and compelling fiction. Convicted by the Puritans in 1660 for being a Quaker, Mary Dyer courageously faced the gallows on the Boston Commons. Often misunderstood by her husband and six children, she turned her back on those who loved her for the higher pri...

Mary Dyer of Rhode Island, the Quaker Martyr

Mary Dyer was a devout Quaker that had the misfortune to live in the early days of the New England colonies in North America. The Puritans in Massachusetts were attempting to create their vision of a religious state. In the words of President Oakes of Harvard University, "... a little model of the g...

Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This (The Dyers) (Volume 2)

In the second of two volumes, Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This, the Mary and William Dyer return to war-torn England and lay a foundation for liberty that resonates in the 21st century. Why did beautiful, wealthy Mary Dyer deliberately give up her six children, husband, and privileged lifestyle to...

Mary Dyer Friend of Freedom (Big Biography)

"Mary Dyer did hang as a flag..." Mary Dyer was the first woman executed in America for her religious beliefs, but her death started a revolution no one could stop. Mary Dyer, Friend of Freedom is the first children's book about this largely forgotten civil rights leader. It tells the true story o...

Mary Dyer Illuminated (The Dyers) (Volume 1)

Mary Barrett Dyer, 1611-1660, was comely, dignified, admired for her intellect, and known in the court of King Charles. But how did she become infamous in England and America as a heretic who gave birth to a monster? Was she responsible for curses falling on colonial New England in the form of great...

Mary Dyer: Biography of a Rebel Quaker

This is the story of Mary Dyer whose indomitable efforts to seek and find freedom to worship lead eventually to her death. Her quest began when she and her husband sailed from old to new England in 1635. Landing in Boston, they were soon disillusioned by the intolerant practices and beliefs of the P...