Lady Deborah Moody was the widow of Sir Henry of Garsden in Wiltshire, England.  Her wealth and position didn’t protect her from the religious persecution in her homeland, so she emigrated to Lynn, Massachusetts.  There she stepped beyond her fellow Puritans embracing the doctrines of the Baptists.  In 1642 she and several other ladies were tried in court “for houldinge that the baptizing of infants is noe ordinance of God.”  Perhaps because of her position she wasn’t banished as others had been, but she voluntarily moved to the freedom of New Amsterdam.  After she left she was excommunicated from the church in Salem by Governor Winthrop.  When someone heard that Lady Moody wanted to return to Massachusetts, Winthrop wrote a letter on this day in 1644 stating his opposition, “unless shee will acknowledge her ewill in opposing the Churches & leave her opinions behind her, ffor she is a dangerous woeman.  My brother Ludow writt to mee that, by means of a booke she sent to Mrs. Eaton, shee questions her owne [infant] baptism, it is verie doubtfull whether shee will be reclaimed, she is so far ingaged.”  Lady Moody eventually settled on Long Island and died there about 1659.
Source – “This Day in Baptist History” by David Cummins and E. Wayne Thompson