wine dance was a tall man who carried himself well, and he's coming up to meet nathaniel sylvester who's standing rather nervously right there. that's rather a lot of up standing and outstanding native americans for him to meet on his own soil. so down there dyer. how many people know who mary dyer is, raise your hands. okay. mary dye canner was the english woman who was a quaker and what was called a public friend. and she came here in 1659 when the quakers were being persecuted in boston by the puritans. and this place was a haven for the quakers. they held slaves, yes, but they also protected the quaker friends as they were harried from south hole to new haven to salem and on to boston. mary dyer is down there, and she's thinking about whether she should go back to boston from which she'd been banished on pain of death. and eventually, she climbed into a little boat -- maybe the same little boat that you see on the back coffer of my book -- cover of my book, and she sailed off to boston, and nathaniel knew that she was going to her death. and she did too. and she was hanged on boston

he was a tall man that carried himself well and he was coming up to meet nathaniel sylvester standing rather nervously right there. that is upstanding and outstanding native americans for him to meet on his own house will -- on his own soil. down there is married dyer, the english woman who was a quaker and a public friend. she came here and 59 when the quakers were being persecuted in boston by the puritans. and this place was a haven for the quakers. they held slaves coming yesterday also protected the quaker friends as they were hurried from the same on and on to boston. mary is down there thinking about whether she should go back to boston, from which she had been banished on the pain of death. eventually she climbed into a little boat. maybe the same boat that you see on the back cover of my book. .. which you may have seen as you came in walking through the garden, some big buildings, there is polk p.m. african name, young man, 154/6 years old, he is hearing the news that he at the division in 1680 of all the possessions of this, he will be shipped to boston away from his commun

so constant sylvester and nathaniel silvestre and their partners come a very well placed english man called thomas middleton who was on the committee for the foreign plantations you were over here on shelter island, they bought this place in 1651 for two reasons. if they bought it for the political instability because in 1651 the cavaliers and the roundheads were hard at work fighting each other on barbados even though he had his head chopped off in 1649 that they were still at it. so it looked like maybe constant and thomas middleton were going to be out of luck. they thought let's have this island that doesn't cost much. it's only a quarter of a teaspoonful sugar per acre as opposed to the land on barbados at the same time which was i think a cup and a half. the first africans to arrive here for hannah and hope, their daughter hope, and they came as the property of grizell brinley as a portion so they were termed her property. is that helpful? so that is a connection that only lasted -- i will wrap up. it only lasted until the next generation from 1646 to 1651 wendi bobbit until 16