Lenape & Dutch · event 12 of 13

27 December 1657

The Flushing Remonstrance. Residents of Flushing, in what is now Queens, send Stuyvesant a written protest against his ban on Quaker worship, arguing for freedom of conscience. It is one of the earliest documents of religious tolerance in American history.

The Lenape & Dutch era

  1. c. 1000 BC
  2. 17 April 1524
  3. 11 September 1609
  4. 1624
  5. 1625
  6. 1626
  7. c. 1626
  8. 1643
  9. 11 May 1647
  10. 1653
  11. 1654
  12. 27 December 1657
  13. 8 September 1664

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