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The Flushing Remonstrance

The Flushing Remonstrance

December 27, 1657 Peter Stuyvesant, director general of New Amsterdam, tried to block Quaker immigration in Vlissingen (now Flushing, Queens), prompting objections from the non- Quaker residents. They issued the Flushing Remonstrance, one of the first communal articulations of a more universal conception of religious liberty in the New World. They defiantly rejected Stuyvesant’s rules—a shocking bit of civil disobedience—and proclaimed tolerance not only of Quakers and Baptists but even of Presbyterians, “Jews, Turks and Egyptians” because Jesus had instructed…

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