She was immediately arrested (the colony had passed laws forbidding Quakerism as heretical), and spent most of that year and the next in various prisons. Moreover, it seemed only fitting to Dyer that her first trip as an evangelist for the new sect would be to the site of her former disgrace, and so in 1657, she returned to Boston. It is unsurprising, then, that the Dyers found the new sect congenial.
Both groups emphasized the primacy of individual conscience over tradition or the Bible. There were many similarities between Hutchinson’s theology and that of George Fox (1624–1691), the founder of the Quakers. In 1651, the Dyers returned to England to defend their land claims in the new colony there, they became converts to the recently formed Society of Friends (commonly known as the Quakers). When Hutchinson was banished in 1638, the Dyers went with her to establish a new colony in what became Rhode Island. Mary Dyer (1611–1660) and her husband, William Dyer, were supporters of Anne Hutchinson during her trial for heresy in Boston.
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