{"id":55,"date":"2007-02-10T18:52:19","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T01:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greencity.org\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2007-02-10T18:52:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T01:52:19","slug":"flushing-remonstrance-descendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"Flushing Remonstrance Descendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">This year the Bowne House Historical Society in New York marks the 350<span style=\"vertical-align: super; font-size: xx-small;\">th<\/span> anniversary of a significant event for religious freedom. From the society&#8217;s news release:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">On December 27, 1657, thirty townspeople of Flushing, Queens signed a &#8220;remonstrance&#8221; 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&#8217;s ban on the rights of Quakers to assemble and worship in the colony. Significantly, it further demanded that all people&#8211;regardless of religion or ethnic background&#8211;be given &#8220;free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">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&#8217;s ban, Bowne allowed people of her faith to meet and worship in their Flushing farmhouse. For this &#8220;crime,&#8221; 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&#8217;s ban, and ordered him &#8220;to allow everyone to have his own belief, as long as he behaves quietly.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">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&#8217;s descendants&#8211;William Waldron&#8211; 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robleesonline.org\/Flushing_Remonstrance.pdf\">http:\/\/www.robleesonline.org\/Flushing_Remonstrance.pdf<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the Bowne House Historical Society in New York marks the 350th anniversary of a significant event for religious freedom. From the society&#8217;s news release: On December 27, 1657, thirty townspeople of Flushing, Queens signed a &#8220;remonstrance&#8221; addressed to Peter Stuyvesant, the director general of the Dutch colony, New Netherland. The two-page letter, set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-older","category-roblee-researchers","tag-roblee"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detling.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}