Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, page 151.

March 26, 1658, order of Peter Stuyvesant to the inhabitants of Flushing (continued); excerpt from the minutes of the New Netherland council for September 30, 1658 regarding three Quakers, Thomas Christian, Thomas Chapman, and John Cook, who were detained while trying to pass through Manhattan to New England; they were returned to Communipaw (Jersey City) and warned not to return to Manhattan; with notes regarding Stuyvesant's February 1, 1656 order prohibiting unauthorized church meetings (conventicles) and the February 12, 1659 arrival in Manhattan of a Joris Jorissen Townsend on the Dutch ship Faith (De Trouw).