Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . vernment called out the famous and noble re-monstrance of Flushing (dated Dec. 27, 1657). It was signed by 28freeholders of Flushing and 2 from Jamaica. They declined to inter-fere with anyone because of religious belief or practice—Presbyterian,Independent, Baptist or Quaker. The remonstrance was written byEdward Heart, the town Clerk; and presented by Tobias Feake, theSheriff. Heart and Feake, together withEdward Farrington and William Noble
Illustrated Flushing and vicinity : College Point, Broadway-Flushing, Malba-on-the-Sound, Whitestone, Bayside, Douglaston, Little Neck in the third wa . vernment called out the famous and noble re-monstrance of Flushing (dated Dec. 27, 1657). It was signed by 28freeholders of Flushing and 2 from Jamaica. They declined to inter-fere with anyone because of religious belief or practice—Presbyterian,Independent, Baptist or Quaker. The remonstrance was written byEdward Heart, the town Clerk; and presented by Tobias Feake, theSheriff. Heart and Feake, together withEdward Farrington and William Noble,magistrates and signers of the remonstrance,were arrested and imprisoned. Heart, Far-rington and Noble weakened and begged formercy. On Sheriff Feake fell the full weightof Stuyvesants wrath. The Sheriff was de-graded from office, and sentenced to pay afine of 200 guilders, or to be banished. Townmeetings were forbidden, unless held by theconsent of the Director-General and theCouncil. Prominent among those who championedthe rights of the Quakers was John Bowne,whose wife was a member of the invited the Quakers to meet at his house,. Old Prince House and Cedar ofLebanon 12 FLUSHING AND VICINITY which still stands on the Avenue that bears his name. Later he becamea member of the Society. For permitting these meetings at his house,Bowne was arrested and fined £25 Flemish. He refused to pay thefine, and was sent to Holland. He stated his case to the Directors ofthe West India Company, who set him at liberty and rebuked Stuyve-sant.
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