The predecessor to the US Constitution's Freedom of Religion in the Bill of Rights, the Flushing Remonstrance was signed on December 27, 1657 in what is now Flushing, New York by a group of citizens who were affronted by persecution of Quakers. This was done in demonstration to the policy of Gov. Peter Stuyvesant, who banned all other religions outside of the Dutch Reformed Church from being practised in the colony of New Netherland. United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... December 27 is the 361st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Events January 8 - Miles Sindercombe, would-be-assassin of Oliver Cromwell, and his group are captured in London February - Admiral Robert Blake defeats the Spanish West Indian Fleet in a battle over the seizure of Jamaica. ... Flushing is a section of the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... This article or section should be merged with this other (reverted) version Peter Stuyvesant (born 1592 in Scherpenzeel, died 1672) served as the last Dutch director general of the colony of New Netherland before it was turned over to the English. ... The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a Calvinist Reformed Protestant denomination that was formerly known as the Dutch Reformed Church. ... New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland, Latin: Nova Belgica or Novum Belgium) was the territory claimed by the United Provinces (the Netherlands) on the eastern coast of North America in the 17th century. ...
Two who signed, the town clerk and the sheriff, were arrested by order of Stuyvesant. The clerk was banished from the colony, but the sheriff, who recanted, was pardoned. The town government of Flushing was removed and replacements were appointed by Stuyvesant.
Subsequently, John Bowne of the colony allowed Quakers to meet in his house. He was arrested in 1662 and eventually made his way back to Holland, where the directors of the Dutch West India Company advised Stuyvesant by a letter (1663) that he was to end religious persecution in the colony. This article is about the region in the Netherlands. ... Dutch West India Company (Dutch: West-Indische Compagnie or WIC) was a company of Dutch merchants. ...
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Electronic text version of the Flushing Remonstrance (http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/HeaFlus.html)
Text of Flushing Remonstrance and information (http://www.nyym.org/flushing/remons.html)
From pertinent language in the Indian deed to Flushing (April 14, 1684) it is probable that the actual settlement took place in the fall of 1644 or in the spring of 1645; more likely the later in view of the rigors of the winter season.
In July 1657, the year of the Remonstrance, there are indications that William Thorne was a proprietor of Jamaica, founded the preceding year, and that he may actually have resided there, as adduced from the marriage reference to a "Sussannah Thorne" in the early Jamaica Town Records (July 10, 1667).
That part of the Flushing branch of the Thorne family remained strongly Anglican is further evidenced by the fact that the rector of St. George's Protestant Episcopal Church in Flushing during the years 1820 to 1826 was Rev. John G. Thorne.
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