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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Last Quaker executed for religious beliefs in American colonies
On March 24, 1661, William Ledda, executed in Boston, became the last Quaker in the American colonies to be put to death for his religious beliefs.
Learn more about the
persecution of the Quakers
in colonial Massachusetts.
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