The history and antiquities of Boston .. . st wife was Alice, this life August the— , 1658. On the other daughter of Edmund Freeman, of Sandwich, side — whom he married in 1639, and had sons Thom- Here sieaps that as and Samuel, born in Plymouth. He had ^l^a^ltipTsluTiluJ nine children, and left a large estate for those That so when time shall be days — near £3000, all of which was in debts ^^^?^ ^« ^^ ^ ^^ ^^f except about £500. His will is dated, 20 Aug. ^ilhTlese7m& ; proved, 21 Sept. following. On the 18th of June, 1830, as workmen were He was probably buried in the Johnson bury-d
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . st wife was Alice, this life August the— , 1658. On the other daughter of Edmund Freeman, of Sandwich, side — whom he married in 1639, and had sons Thom- Here sieaps that as and Samuel, born in Plymouth. He had ^l^a^ltipTsluTiluJ nine children, and left a large estate for those That so when time shall be days — near £3000, all of which was in debts ^^^?^ ^« ^^ ^ ^^ ^^f except about £500. His will is dated, 20 Aug. ^ilhTlese7m& ; proved, 21 Sept. following. On the 18th of June, 1830, as workmen were He was probably buried in the Johnson bury-digging up a portion of the foundation of the ing ground (now Kings Chapel). His Auto-old State house, at the head of State street, to graph may be seen ante, p. alterations for the accommodation of the f Nobles Memoirs, i. 91, & Office in that building, a stone was found % Some account of the family of Russell haswhich, from the inscription, must have been once been published by the writer in the New 1659.] ROBINSON. STEVENSON. DYAR. 355 whoever rushes upon the point of a sword is a self-murderer ; but thusdid the rulers of those days with evident self-justification proceed tomake and execute laws against heretics ; as though it were not theconsciences of people that caused them to question the righteousnessof such laws, but that through their wicked obduracy they had wilfullybroken them ; thus, in effect, claiming that there could be no con-scientiousness except in their own breasts. Such is the manifestationof human nature at a certain stage of civilization. William Robinson, formerly a merchant of London, MarmadukeStevenson, of the eastern part of Yorkshire, England, and Mary Dyar,of Rhode Island, who was banished formerly among the Antinomians,were sentenced to be hanged. The two men were hanged * onthe Common, f but Mary Dyar, after she was upon the ladderwith her arms and legs tied, and the rope about her neck, was sparedat the urgent solicit
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