William Dyer (settler)
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 118 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5080-6301-6
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Dyer (also Dyre) (1609–by 1677) was an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a founding settler of both Portsmouth and Newport, and Rhode Island's first Attorney General. He is best known for being the husband of the Quaker martyr, Mary Dyer, who was executed for her beliefs in Boston. Sailing from England as a young man with his wife, Dyer first settled in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but soon became a follower of the dissident ministers John Wheelwright and Anne Hutchinson during the Antinomian Controversy, and signed a petition in support of Wheelwright. For doing this, he was disenfranchised and disarmed, and with many other followers of Hutchinson, he signed the Portsmouth Compact, and settled on Aquidneck Island in the Narragansett Bay. Within a year of arriving there, he and others followed William Coddington to the south end of the island where they established the town of Newport....