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The Flushing Remonstrance, religious freedom's first petition
December 27, 1657
Bowne House, Flushing, Queens
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Thirty residents petitioned Peter Stuyvesant against his ban on Quakers, arguing that the law of love, peace and liberty extends to Jews, Turks and Egyptians. John Bowne was arrested and deported for hosting meetings, appealed to Amsterdam and won, a century before the First Amendment.
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