Mary Dyer

Quaker

Witness for religious freedom.

Hanged on Boston Common - 1660.

"My life not availeth me in comparison to the liberty of the truth."

Erected by the Art Commission of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from the legacy of Zenas Ellis of Fair Haven, Vermont.

Dedicated 9 July 1959

Sylvia Shaw Judson - Sculptor

Marker is on Beacon Street west of Bowdoin Street.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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