trials

January 13, 1661 trial of Henry Townsend and Samuel Spicer by Nicasius de Sille (continued); and the January 20, 1661 report by Nicasius de Sille to Peter Stuyvesant regarding Henry Townsend, giving Townsend's criminal history of associating with Quakers and recommending that Townsend be fined 100 Flanders pounds, jailed until the fine paid, and banished from New Netherland as an example to others.

January 9, 1661 report of the Rev. Samuel Drusius, Resolve Waldron, and Nicolas Bayard who had been sent to Rustdorp (now Jamaica) to investigate reported Quaker meetings (continued); and January 13, 1661 trial of Henry Townsend and Samuel Spicer by Nicasius de Sille, attorney general on New Netherland, for having promoted, hosted, and attended Quaker meetings; their excuse that they had only met with friends was rejected and a fine of 600 guilders was recommended and both were jailed awaiting Peter Stuyvesant's final judgement.

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.