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The History of Quaker Return to Massachusetts
Mary Stevenson was one of the many Quakers who tried to return to Massachusetts after being expelled from the colony. Many Puritans had moved to the colonies because they did not feel they could exercise their religion freely in England. In 1658, Massachusetts passed a law that made returning to the colony more than once after being banished, punishable by death.