This year the Bowne House Historical Society in New York marks the 350th anniversary of a significant event for religious freedom. From the society’s news release:
On December 27, 1657, thirty townspeople of Flushing, Queens signed a “remonstrance” addressed to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the Dutch colony, New Netherland. The two-page letter, set down by a local cleric, protested Stuyvesant’s ban on the rights of Quakers to assemble and worship in the colony. Significantly, it further demanded that all people–regardless of religion or ethnic background–be given “free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences.”
Stuyvesant ignored the Flushing Remonstrance, as it came to be known, but its principles were later tested by John Bowne, an English immigrant and prosperous landowner in Flushing. Although not a Quaker himself, Bowne was married to Quaker minister Hannah Feake Bowne. In defiance of Stuyvesant’s ban, Bowne allowed people of her faith to meet and worship in their Flushing farmhouse. For this “crime,” Stuyvesant imprisoned Bowne in 1662 and banished him to Holland. Refusing to capitulate, Bowne argued his case before the Dutch West India Company. In 1663, the company revoked Stuyvesant’s ban, and ordered him “to allow everyone to have his own belief, as long as he behaves quietly.”
The historical society is seeking descendants of the men who signed the Flushing Remonstrance, as well as Peter Stuyvestant and his sheriff Resolved Waldron. One of Resolved Waldron’s descendants–William Waldron– married Judah Brodt (Bradt) in l804 and produced 14 Waldrons, four of whom married Roblees. The complete text of the news release is available at http://www.robleesonline.org/Flushing_Remonstrance.pdf.
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By Doug
– February 10, 2007
I’m in the process of a complete overall of the Greencity web site. Since Microsoft is abandoning Front Page2003 in favor of a new web page design program, and since its new program doesn’t work very well with MySQL data bases (I store my family history data in one, and this web log in another), it is a good time, in my opinion, to focus on using additional programs to improve the site. I want to engage others who are interested in exploring family history and exchanging information on topics of interest. Basically, the web redesign will evolve in stages. When done, I expect to have the following:
- The main web site (www.greencity.org) will be maintained in pretty much the format it has now. Users will be encouraged to register and can actually contribute to the site’s information and features.
- A forum for information exchange will be added to the site: www.greencity.org/forum, and users will have to register but this feature will promote information exchange on a number of topics of interest. This portion of the site is a phpBB forum. Bunker Family Association and Roblee researchers will be encouraged to use it.
- This web log will be maintained in its current form (www.greencity.org/blog)–namely a Word Press blog with two of its categories suited to family history of selected groups (the Bunker Family Association and Roblee researchers, whose web sites I manage.
- The Bunker Family Association web site (www.bunkerfamilyassn.org) and the Roblee research site (www.robleesonline.org) will continue to be maintained with Front Page 2003.
- My family history data base will continue to be accessible through The Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building (TNG), which is a PHP/MySQL combination. It too encourages individuals to register to exchange data. This data base contains information on more than 10,000 individuals and more than 3,500 families, is searchable. This data is at www.greencity.org/TNG.
- My photo albums will continue to be available at greencity.phanfare.com.
Posted in Computer Interests, Older Posts, Web Site News.
By Doug
– February 7, 2007
For some time now, I have been maintaining a comprehensive data base on the descendants of Sobriety Bunker, designated by the Bunker Family Association as D15-II in the Dover branch. Originally, a number of Bunker descendants shared information to produce a comprehensive report in 1996, and the report was updated in March 1997. Since that time, a number of anciliary lines have been documented, and numerous cousins have shared and compiled additional information, which I have added to my own family history data base, which is available through the following site: http://www.greencity.org/TNG. More recently, I received a huge update from Randy Schroder, whose wife Alice Williams Schroder is a Bunker/Williams cousin. Randy’s work documents the descendants of Sarah Jane Williams, who married Alexander Behanna about 1840, and the descendants of Sarah’s sister Hannah Williams, who married Alexander Behanna’s brother Henry B. in about 1837. Tracing the family roots of the these two couples added several weeks of work to documenting the extension of the Sobriety Bunker descendancy lines.
In addition, I have also received extensive additional information on the descendants of Melzar Fremont Winslow (another Sobriety Bunker descendant), who married Mary Octavia Picraux in 1887. Adding that new information, courtesyof Denise Foley, will increase my data base to more than 10,000 individuals and extend what is known about Sobriety Bunker’s descendants greatly. Rather than produce a printed report that could easily run more than 500 pages, including notes, sources, etc., it is my plan at the moment to distribute this information on a CD to members of the Bunker Family Association (after appropriately privatizing certain information on living individuals) and other family members. I am hoping to complete this work by early summer. At the moment, I am planning to make copies of the CD available for about $18, including shipping and handling. If you would be interested in purchasing one, please send an e-mail to me at doug.detling@greencity.org. After deducting the costs of making the CDs and shipping and handling, proceeds of this effort will be channeled back into maintaining the Bunker Family Association’s web site. Further information on this will be forthcoming as soon as I get a little further along.
Posted in Bunker Family History, Detling Family History, Older Posts, Personal.
Tagged with BFA, Bunker, Dover.
By Doug
– January 29, 2007
The Bunker Family Association’s e-mail address directory on the web site has been updated. For the latest information, visit http://www.bunkerfamilyassn.org/email.html.
Posted in Bunker Family History, Older Posts.
Tagged with BFA, Bunker, family history.
By Doug
– January 20, 2007
Today I completed a major update of the family tree data base stored on the greencity website. The data now contains information on more than 9,800 individuals in more than 3,600 families. Notes and source information are also included. You can view the data base using this link: www.greencity.org/TNG. If you haven’t registered for a while, please do so in order that I may have your contact information.
Posted in Bradt/Brott Family, Bunker Family History, Detling Family History, Genealogy Web Sites, Older Posts, Roblee Researchers.
Tagged with family history, GENDEX.
By Doug
– December 30, 2006
A special note of thanks is in order to Phil Roblee, Joyce Atkin, Jean Baker, Mona Rhone, Lois Robblee and Cindy Walcott for their financial contributions in support of the Roblee researchers web site. These funds, in addition to those I make, pay for the renewal of our domain name (Robleesonline.org) and the fees to maintain our web site to share information about the Roblee family name, including spelling variations. Thanks again.
Posted in Older Posts, Roblee Researchers.
By Doug
– November 15, 2006
My friends are always saying that my musical tastes are eclectic-with my favorite artists and bands ranging from the Eagles (and their individual performances as solo artists) to Emmylou Harris to Aaron Neville to the Texas Tornados, Roy Orbison, Bruce Springsteen and the Mavericks. Throw in Celine Dion and Chris Hillman, and a few Hispanic artists or groups such as Los Temerarios and Ramon Ayala. So it’s not surprising that I always am intrigued by Oxford American magazine’s annual music issue, which is accompanied by a music CD. What better $10 buy than a single copy magazine and CD with more than 20 songs on it? Or better still, a $14.95 a year subscription. I only wish I had discovered these earlier-as several issues are out of print and the others relatively expensive (one goes for $50).
The 2006 music issue is an exceptional variety of Southern music-and like its predecessors not “contemporary” in that the songs have a wide appeal and a wide range of performance dates. This year, for example, the 24-track includes Amiram Riagai’s 1979 rendition of “Souvenir de Porto Rico” composed by Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) as well a groovy funk by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings “How Long Do I have to Wait for You?” performed in 2005. Throw in some period pieces by Muhammad Ali (1976) and Andy Griffith (1957), and you’ve got an amazing compilation of tracks. In my opinion, the best tracks are Eartha Kitt’s “C’est Si Bon” (1953) and Sam Cooke’s “Tennessee Waltz” (1964). But there’s a track for everyone who loves guitars and down home music that tugs at you from every corner of the room.
www.oxfordamericanmag.com
Posted in Music, Older Posts, Personal.
By Doug
– October 11, 2006
All of the five surname mailing lists I manage at Rootsweb have been successfully migrated to the new mailing list software: BRADT, BROTT, BUNKER, DETLING and ROBLEE. Any subscriber who has trouble with receiving messages from Rootsweb should feel free to contact me at doug.detling@gmail.com.
Posted in Bradt/Brott Family, Bunker Family History, Computer Interests, Detling Family History, Genealogy Web Sites, Older Posts, Roblee Researchers.
By Doug
– August 21, 2006
Doug has been elected to the 2006-07 Board of Directors for the Oregon Chapter of the International Public Management Association for Human Resources. He was selected as the Board member responsibile for the chapter newsletter. IPMA-HR is the leading international association for public sector human relations professionals. Doug also serves on the IPMA-HR Publications Advisory Committee during 2006.
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By Doug
– June 13, 2006
Manuela and I decided this past week to spend the day southeast of Portland, Oregon at the annual June rose show hosted at Heirloom Roses in St. Paul, just a few minutes west of Interstate 5. Heirloom Roses is owned by John and Louise Clements. This is only the second time for the Rose Days’ celebration at their gardens the first weekend in June, but it was well worth the five-hour drive to spend a few hours walking through the exquisite collections of roses on the Clements’ six acres. There are 10 thematic gardens with more than 4,000 rose varieties. A special treat is John’s miniature rose collection. We selected a few additions for our garden (see photo album at greencity.phanfare.com).
http://heirloomroses.com
Posted in Older Posts, Personal.
By Doug
– June 4, 2006
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