| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1656 | | First Quaker missionaries arrive in New England | Between 1656-1661, at least 40 Quakers preached in Massachusetts. Some came from England, others from Barbados or Rhode Island | Quaker, Whittier |
| 1657 | | Lawrance and Cassandra Southwick imprisoned for entertaining Quakers | They were eventually released, then imprisoned again the next year, and finally banished in 1659 on pain of death. The court threatened to sell their children to Barbados. | Quaker, Whittier |
| 1659 | | Massachusetts executes Quakers | | execution |
| 1660 | | Mary Dyer executed. | Dyer had been sentenced to death three years earlier but was reprieved on the condition she not return. | Quaker |
| 1661 | | English Quaker William Leddra hanged in Boston. | In response English Quakers sought a mandamus from King Charles II. A Salem Quaker, Samuel Shattock, who was then in England, delivered it to Governor Endecott. | Quaker, Whittier |
| 1661 | | George Bishop, "New England Judged" | This was a Quaker response to John Norton's "New England Rent," an apology for anti-Quaker laws. | Quaker |
| 1662 | | Deborah Wilson ran naked through the streets of Salem. | This was one of several attempts at civil disobedience by Quakers who chose flamboyant efforts to witness against persecution. Like the others, Wilson as whipped at the cart tail. | Quakers |
| 1667 | | George Bishop, "New England Judged, II" | | Quaker |
| 1675 | | King Philip's War | Read a modernized version of Philip's account of Indian grievances originally contained in a narrative by the Rhode Island Quaker, John Easton | Indians, Philip |
| 1695 | | Thomas Maule denounces Puritan leaders | | Quakers |
| 1880 | | John Greenleaf Whittier writes poems about Quaker persecution. | | Quaker |
| 1881 | | Controversy over John G. Whittier's "The King's Missive" | In letters to the Boston Daily Advertiser, Whittier and historian George Ellis argued over the imprisonment of Quakers in 17th century Boston. | Quaker, Whittier, poetry |
| 1888 | | Whittier supports women's suffrage. | | suffrage, Quaker |
