Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, vol. 14 (1883)

Read in the archive.org full text (October 2026; The Long Island Quaker families of the Frost line). Translations of the Dutch records of New Netherland, edited by Berthold Fernow.

• The Flushing Remonstrance (pp. 402-404), 27 Dec 1657, signed first by "Tobias Feake," the town's schout, and also by "Edward ffarington" (husband of John Bowne's sister Dorothy). Tobias delivered it and "his Honor immediately ordered the Fiscal to arrest the said Schout"; Farrington was arrested on 1 Jan 1658.
• The Directors of the West India Company to Stuyvesant (p. 526), 16 April 1663: "Your last letter informed us that you had banished from the Province and sent hither by ship a certain Quaker, John Bowne by name: although we heartily desire, that these and other sectarians remained away from there, yet as they do not, we doubt very much, whether we can proceed against them rigorously without diminishing the population and stopping immigration, which must be favored at a so tender stage of the country's existence. You may therefore shut your eyes, at least not force people's consciences, but allow every one to have his own belief, as long as he behaves quietly and legally, gives no offence to his neighbors and does not oppose the government."

For King Philip's War (research/king-philips-war/), Governor Andros's council minutes and letters of 1675-76 (pp. 692-707):

• Andros at Saybrook: his letters dated "Seabrooke, July the 9th 1675" and "July 10th 1675," finding "no occasion heer upon the Indyan Acco'" (pp. 692-693), which date his attempt on the fort to July 1675.
• Long Island's Indians: 24 July 1675, the towns to keep watch and "to take Care, that ye Indyans now disarmed bee not any wise Injured" (p. 692); 10 Sept 1675, "That wee ought not to breake wt our Indyans upon Acct of ye warre betweene our Neighbors & their Indyans" (p. 696); 15 Sept, their guns restored "by reason of their good Comport," except those of East Hampton and Shelter Island, "who having paid Contribution to those of Narrogansett" (p. 697); the Montauk sachem, 5 Oct, "4 of our stoutest men have been this tyme of warre with the English Captains & fought under them" (p. 699); 28 May 1676, "wee have upon Acct of our Neighbors Warre, disarmed all our Indyans upon Long Island, & prohibited all canoes from goeing in the Sound" (p. 705).
• Oyster Bay: 14 Sept 1675, "Upon the Complaint of Capt. Thomas Townsend of Oyster bay, That many of ye Inhabitants there being Quakers & refusing to beare arms, they are disabled from keeping so strong a watch as is required," the constable and overseers to "Levy The fines vpon the Estates of all persons that shall make defaults" (p. 697); 19 Oct 1675, "severall of the Inhabitants of Oyster bay ... are still very backward in making up their ffortifications" (p. 704); 21 Oct 1675, among lands "Claimed by the Indians as not Paid for," "A necke kalled Matinecoch on the Sound at the Eastward of Muchito Cove" (p. 705).