The first Quakers came to British America in July 1656, when Mary Fisher and Ann Austin arrived in Boston aboard a ship from Barbados. The colonial authorities quickly arrested them on charges of witchcraft and shipped them back. No sooner had this happened than another group arrived to meet the same welcome. In response to this growing influx of religious enthusiasts, the colony barred ships from landing Quakers in the colony. In response, Quakers started settling in the religiously tolerant colony of Rhode Island. From there, they continued their attempts to take their religious message to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where the authorities adopted increasingly extreme measures in response, including the execution of four Quakers on Boston Common.

• Quakers came for England
• had visions in England of different religion not exactly England
• Anglican was only religion so Quakers were considered rebels
• not allowed to land in America
• settled in Rhode island
• Anglicans tried to get rid of them and executed four

Since the first Colonists were Anglican, the religious Quakers were rejected. The English colonists did not want any religion besides Anglican. How many people were Quakers, and was there a lot of Quakers in England? I think that Quakers like many, thought they would get religious freedom in America. Were Quakers rejected in England too? The Anglicans charged the Quakers with Witchcraft, because they did not believe that any religion besides their own was real. When Quakers continued to settle in America, the Anglicans could not tolerate them, and sent that message by publicly Executing Four Quakers. The only reason Quakers could stay in America, was because they founded colonies lead by Quakers, so they were in control. The Quakers went to colonize in America but their dreams of freedom were turned down by the colonist.