They traveled from England to Barbados in 1655 and then went on to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to spread the beliefs of the Friends among the colonists .
Mary Fisher and Ann Austin are the first known Quakers to set foot in the New World .
Quakers traveled from England to Barbados in 1655 and then went on to the Massachusetts Bay Colony to spread the beliefs of the Friends among the colonists .
Mary Fisher and Ann Austin are the first known Quakers to set foot in the New World .