They were thrown into dungeons; they were beaten with many stripes, women as well as men; they were driven forth into the wilderness, and left to the tender mercies of wild beasts and Indians.

The children were amazed to hear, that, the more the Quakers were scourged, and imprisoned, and banished, the more did the sect increase, both by the influx of strangers, and by converts from among the Puritans.

But Grandfather told them, that God had put something into the soul of man, which always turned the cruelties of the persecutor to nought.
He went on to relate, that, in 1659, two Quakers, named William Robinson and Marmaduke Stephenson, were hanged at Boston.

A woman had been sentenced to die with them, but was reprieved, on condition of her leaving the colony.

Her name was Mary Dyer.