tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582751663390398171.post7471134362364535931..comments2023-11-03T17:20:18.270-07:00Comments on William & Mary Dyer: The wedding in 1633Christy K Robinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05988458745832012138noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582751663390398171.post-13846901654496121202012-10-28T10:08:27.361-07:002012-10-28T10:08:27.361-07:00How fortunate to have items directly identified wi...How fortunate to have items directly identified with the remarkable Mary Dyer. I have never heard of anything in the Gardner or Watson family which goes back to Herodias Long :( Thanks for an excellent post, Christy!<br /><br />Jo Ann ButlerJo Ann Butlerhttp://www.rebelpuritan.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4582751663390398171.post-34039846769200636222012-10-27T14:22:52.046-07:002012-10-27T14:22:52.046-07:00Stories of Mary's fancy dress have been around...Stories of Mary's fancy dress have been around for a long time. Cornelia Joy-Dyer, writing about 1880, asserted that Dyer served at the Royal Court during her youth and that a dress that she wore there had been cut up in small pieces and distributed among descendants and Quakers in Pennsylvania and Delaware. This dress is described in detail as “worked in many colored silks, with gold and silver thread, by her own hands … The groundwork of this dress was rich white satin—butterflies, flowers, grasshoppers, with other insects, were the chosen figures.” One surviving fragment is accompanied by a note written in 1823 stating that Dyer wore this dress in New England before becoming a Friend, that the carefully embroidered fragment shows the fashion of the age, “and tends to prove what [the author] heard traditionally in her family, that she was originally a woman of education, fashion and beauty.” A second fragment (noted by Christy) is privately owned and described as Dyer’s “wedding dress.” I have seen both fragments, can affirm they are pieces of the same dress, they both have a Pennsylvania-Delaware provenance (where Mary's son William settled), and I believe they are indeed from Mary Dyer. The gold bodkin, stamped with her initials, also has its provenance reliably among Mary's descendants, was withdrawn from auction, and is the only other remaining artifact that can be identified with Mary. Johan Winssernoreply@blogger.com