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The Pikes of SalisburyYou and every one of you are required, in the King’smajesty’s name, to take these vagabond Quakers, Ann Coleman,Mary Tompkins, Alice Ambrose and make them fast tothe carts tail and driving the cart through your severaltowns, to whip them upon their backs, not exceeding tenstripes apiece on each of them, in each town. And so to conveythem from constable to constable till they come out ofthis jurisdiction, as you will answer it at your peril, and thisshall be your warrant.per me Richard Waldron, December 22, 1662”The warrant was carried out in Dover and Hampton.When they arrived in Salisbury, John Greenleaf Whittiertold in his poem How the Women Went from Dover, MajorRobert Pike gave the order, “To loose them and let them go.’’There has been some controversy as to whether it wasPike who set them free, or one Walter Barefoot. Charles IrelandPettingell, in an account of Walter Barefoot, claims itwas he who had the constable appoint him a deputy andtook the woman aboard a vessel and sailed to Kittery, to thehome of the Shapleighs. George Bishop also gives the creditto Barefoot.In June 1976 during Salisbury’s celebration of the Bicentennial,decendents of Major Robert Pike re-enacted JohnGreenleaf Whittier’s Poem How the Women Went from Dover.It was Russel Pike, acting as the Dover, New Hampshireconstable, who walked behind the ox-drawn cart with therope bound quakers, Anne Coleman, Mary Tompkins andAlice Ambrose. They were in reality Kim Paradis, CynthiaNoone and Jane Thomas. Dawn Paradis stepped out of thecrowd to offer the quakers a drink, but the cup was knockedfrom her hand by the constable. At the East ParishMethodist Church was Bruce Pike acting as the Salisburyconstable and Donald Pike as Major Robert Pike who cameto the defense of the Quakers.7