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

Read in the archive.org full text (October 2026; research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md). 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.”