The Historian · Eleanor · New York
Bowne House
This 1661 house is one of the oldest in the city and central to a story most New Yorkers never learn. John Bowne let Quakers worship here in defiance of Peter Stuyvesant's ban; his arrest and successful appeal, alongside the 1657 Flushing Remonstrance signed nearby, is often cited as a foundation of religious freedom in America — a century before the First Amendment. Out in Flushing, far from the tourist track.
A 1661 Queens farmhouse tied to the Flushing Remonstrance — a root of American religious liberty.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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