executive records

An August 24, 1662 record of the complaint of the magistrates of Rustdorp (now Jamaica) that a large Quaker meeting is held weekly at John Bowne's home in Flushing; an excerpt of a September 9, 1662 order that the magistrates and residents of the English towns in New Netherland assist the schout (sheriff) Resolved Waldron to arrest those attending the Quaker meeting; an excerpt of the September 14, 1662 sentence pronounced against John Bowne that he be fined 25 Flanders pounds and if he again holds Quaker meetings, he will be fined 50 Flanders pounds and banished for a third offense.

January 8, 1661 letter from Peter Stuyvesant to the inhabitants of Rustdorp (now Jamaica) sending Rev. Samuel Drusius to perform baptisms and with him, Resolve Waldron, substitute schout (Dutch official similar to a sheriff), and Nicolas Bayard, clerk, to investigate reported Quaker meetings including ones hosted by Henry Townsend.

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 s

January 28, 1658, sentence pronounced by Peter Stuyvesant against Tobias Feake for his part in the Flushing Remonstrance; Feake, who had already been jailed for a month, is to be stripped of his position as sheriff of Flushing and pay a fine of 200 guilders in lieu of banishment.

Report of the January 15, 1658 trial of Henry Townsend for harboring Quakers (continued); and a note that on January 23, 1658, Edward Hart, having been jailed for three weeks, asking for mercy from the council, successfully petitioned to be released.

Report of the January 9-10, 1658 examination of William Noble and Edward Farrington, magistrates of Flushing, regarding their signing the Flushing Remonstrance; they first argued that the patent for Flushing allowed freedom of conscience, but later confessed, claimed that Tobias Feake had persuaded them, and swore to use better judgement in the future; report of the January 15, 1658 trial of Henry Townsend for harboring Quakers for which he was fined 300 guilders and to be jailed until his fine was paid.

January 8, 1658 summons issued by Peter Stuyvesant to Henry Townsend, Rustdorp (now Jamaica), for hosting Quaker meetings in his home (continued); report of the January 10, 1658 interrogation of John Townsend, Rustdorp, by the governor's council regarding his role in the Flushing Remonstrance and his association with a Quaker at Gravesend; he was ordered to pay bail or else remain jailed until he could be questioned by the attorney general.

Notes on the December 29, 1657 presentation of the Flushing Remonstrance by Tobias Feake, sheriff of Flushing, to Peter Stuyvesant and Stuyvesant's response including his January 3, 1658 questioning of Edward Hart, town clerk of Flushing, with excerpts from the Dutch records of the state of New York; and a January 8, 1658 summons issued by Stuyvesant to Henry Townsend, Rustdorp (now Jamaica), for hosting Quakers and their meetings in his home.

Excerpt from the Dutch records of the state of New York, March 10, 1664, noting the May 1640 attempt by English colonists to land near Manhasset Bay (here misidentified as Southampton) which was repulsed by the Dutch, and claiming that the Dutch had settled in western Long Island by 1632; and an excerpt from a 1673 letter by Matthias Harvey, town clerk, for the town of Oyster Bay, to Cornelis Evertsen and Jacob Binckes, submitting to Dutch rule following the recapture of New Netherland from the English.

Excerpts from an June 10, 1697 order from the Governor and Council authorizing John Harrison, Thomas Townsend, and five others to purchase land in Oyster Bay from the local Native Americans and receive a patent; from a March 18, 1665 [i.e. 1666] document from Governor Richard Nicolls appointing Capt.

Notes summarizing an April 20, 1669 order directing Robert Williams and John Cole, Oyster Bay, to translate the Native Americans testimony in Richard Smith's trial, the trials verdict against Smith, and a May 13, 1669 order directing Thomas Rushmore to surrender the Hempstead militia's colors to Capt. John Underhill; all from the records of the State of New York.

Notes summarizing a February 10, 1668 [i.e. 1669] order from Governor Francis Lovelace directing Richard Latting, Oyster Bay, to fence and manure his land and a December 16, 1668 order from Lovelace directing Richard Smith, Nissequogue, to summon Native Americans to testify at a trial over land in Smithtown; a note documenting Richard Cornell and Elias Doughty mentioned as justice of the peace and constable, February 17, 1668 [i.e. 1669]; and an excerpt from a March 27, 1669 letter from Governor Lovelace regarding a dispute between Francis Doughty Jr. on behalf of his father, Rev.