Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . 11 FLUSHING AND VICINITY. Old Bowne House appears as Sheriff ofFlushing in 1648, andacting as censor of thepulpit. He was notpleased with Doughtyspreaching, and conse-quently closed the doorof his said that the minis-ter did preach againstthe present rulers, whowere his masters. An official documentof 1649 speaks ofFlushing which is anhandsome village, andtolerably stocked withcattle, and states thatthe only known tavern on
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . 11 FLUSHING AND VICINITY. Old Bowne House appears as Sheriff ofFlushing in 1648, andacting as censor of thepulpit. He was notpleased with Doughtyspreaching, and conse-quently closed the doorof his said that the minis-ter did preach againstthe present rulers, whowere his masters. An official documentof 1649 speaks ofFlushing which is anhandsome village, andtolerably stocked withcattle, and states thatthe only known tavern on Long Island, except the one at the ferry, was in Flushing. Our little settlement was 12 years old when (August 6, 1657) theship IVoodhouse brought to New Netherland a number of members ofthe Society of Friends. Some of them came to Long Island, and settledin Jamaica and Flushing. A proclamation was issued by the Dutchcolonial government, imposing a fine of £50 on any one who gaveshelter to a Quaker for one night, and authorizing the confiscation ofany vessel that brought Quakers to the Province. This action on thepart of the colonial government called out the famous and
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