350TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FLUSHING REMONSTRANCE

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH SOURCES

The following books, articles, and reference sources offer a wealth of information about the Flushing Remonstrance, the Bowne family and the historic 1661 Bowne House, the history of Flushing, and insight into the life of Dutch New York.

The Bowne House Historical Society gratefully acknowledges a grant from the New York State Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and support from the New York State Archives Partnership Trust for the compilation of this bibliography.

The Society also thanks the Institute in Albany, New York and the New- York Historical Society in New York City for their excellent bibliographies which provided many sources for this compilation.

BOWNE HOUSE AND THE BOWNE FAMILY

Hirshey, Gerri. “The Cradle of Our Religious Freedom.” Parade, April 17, 2005. Article about Bowne House.

King, Edith Wilson, ed. Bowne Family of Flushing, Long Island. New York: Bowne & Co., 1987. Facsimile edition of 1948 publication. Available for purchase on the Bowne House Historical Society website www.bownehouse.org

New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. “Bowne House.” Landmark Designation Report, 1966. To view a printable version of the report, see the website of the Neighborhood Preservation Center www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org and select “NYC Landmark Designation Reports.”

Ricard, Herbert F., ed. The Journal of , 1650-1694. New Orleans: Friends of the Queensborough Community College Library and Polyanthos, 1975.

THE FLUSHING REMONSTRANCE

Kroessler, Jeffrey A. “Demanding Tolerance: The Flushing Remonstrance and the Ordeal of John Bowne.” Paper delivered at Messiah College, Conference on Faith and History, October 1994. Levy, Leonard W. The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendment. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

Maike, Dennis. “Commemoration and Context: The Flushing Remonstrance Then and Now.” Paper delivered at conference of the New York State Historical Association, July 2007. The paper can be read at http://www.nysha.org/nysha/about_us/annual_meeting

Trebor, Haynes, ed. The Flushing Remonstrance (The Origin of Religious Freedom in America). Flushing: Bowne House Historical Society, 1957.

Voorhees, David. “The 1657 Flushing Remonstrance in Historical Perspective.” Paper delivered at the New York State History Conference, June 2007.

THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH AND THE QUAKERS

Balmer, Randall. A Perfect Babel of Confusion: Dutch Religion and English Culture in the Middle Colonies. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Bonomi, Patricia U. Under the Cope of Heaven: Religion, Society, and Politics in Colonial America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

2 Cox, Jr., John. Quakerism in the City of New York, 1657-1930. New York: Privately Published, 1930.

Fabend, Firth Haring. "Church and State, Hand in Hand: Compassionate Calvinism in New Netherland." de Halve Maen, 75 (Spring 2002).

Goodfriend, Joyce D. "The Social Dimensions of Congregational Life in Colonial New York City." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 46 (1989).

Lowry, Ann Gidley. The Story of Flushing Meeting House. Flushing: Case the Printer, 1939.

Powell, Charles U. The Quakers in Flushing, 1657-1937. Flushing: Case the Printer, 1937.

Smith, George L. Religion and Trade in New Netherland: Dutch Origins and American Development. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1973.

Zwierlein, Frederick J. Religion in New Netherland: A History of the Development of the Religious Conditions in the Province of New Netherland, 1623-1664. Rochester: J. P. Smith, 1910.

HISTORY OF AND FLUSHING

Many of the following publications may be available at the Queens Library, Long Island Division, in Jamaica, Queens.

Mandeville, G. Henry. Flushing, Past and Present: A Historical Sketch. Flushing: Home Lecture Committee, 1860.

Munsell, William, ed. A History of Queens County, New York. New York: Munsell & Co., 1882.

Peterson, Jon A., ed. A Research Guide to the History of the Borough of Queens, New York City. New York: Queens College, City University of New York, 1987. pp. 7-26.

Seyfried, Vincent F. Queens: A Pictorial History. Norfolk, VA: Donning Co., 1983.

Skal, George von. Illustrated History of the Borough of Queens, New York City. Flushing: F.T. Smiley Publishing Co., 1908.

3 Waller, Henry D. History of the Town of Flushing, Long Island, New York. Flushing: J.H. Ridenour, 1899.

HISTORY OF DUTCH NEW YORK

Dankers, Jaspar, and Peter Sluyter. Journal of a Voyage to New York, 1679-1680. Henry C. Murphy, trans. and ed. : Long Island Historical Society, 1867.

Fernow, Berthold, trans. and ed. The Records of from 1653-1674. 7 vols. 1897; rpt. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1976.

Gehring, Charles T. A Guide to Dutch Manuscripts Relating to New Netherland. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1978.

Goodfriend, Joyce D., ed. Revisiting New Netherland: Perspectives on Early Dutch America. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005.

Jacobs, Jaap. New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeeth-Century America. Leiden: Brill, 2005.

Jameson, J. F. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664. 1909; rpt. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1937.

Kessler, Henry H. and Rachlis, Eugene. and His New York. New York: Random House, 1959.

Kenney, Alice P. Stubborn for Liberty: The Dutch in New York. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1975.

New-York Historical Society. Cultures, Commerce & Communities: A Teacher’s Resource Guide for the Study of the 17th Century City of New Amsterdam. New York: New-York Historical Society, 2002.

O’Callaghan, E. B. The History of New Netherland. 2 vols. New York: D. Appleton, 1848.

O’Callaghan, E.B., trans. Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1868.

Rothschild, Nan A. and Diana diZerega Wall. "The Archaeology of New Amsterdam and New York." New Netherland Studies. Bulletin KNOB, 84, No. 2/3 (June 1985).

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SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN DUTCH NEW YORK

Bart, Jan. "Dutch Material Civilization: Daily Life Between 1650-1776, Evidence from Archeology." New World Dutch Studies. Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1987.

Bielinski, Stefan. "Blacks in Early New York: Finding the People." The Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, 5, Nos. 3 and 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Biemer, Linda B. Women and Property in Colonial New York: The Transition from Dutch to English Law, 1643-1727. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1983.

Blackburn, Roderic H. and Ruth Piwonka, eds. Remembrance of Patria: Dutch Arts and Culture in Colonial America, 1609-1776. Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art, 1988.

"Blacks in New Netherland and Colonial New York." Papers from the 6th Annual Rensselaerswijck Seminar, in Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society 5, Nos. 3 and 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Bonomi, Patricia U. A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.

Fabend, Firth Haring. A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.

Failey, Dean F. Long Island is My Nation: The Decorative Arts & Craftsmen 1640-1830. Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, 1998.

Goodfriend, Joyce D. Before the Melting Pot: Society and Culture in Colonial New York City, 1664-1730. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

Goodfriend, Joyce D. "Black Families in New Netherland." Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, 5, Nos. 3 and 4 (Fall and Winter 1984).

Goodfriend, Joyce D. “Burghers and Blacks: The Evolution of a Slave Society at New Amsterdam.” New York History, 59 (April 1978).

Innes, J. H. New Amsterdam and Its People: Studies, Social and Topographical, of the Town under Dutch and Early English Rule. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1902.

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Jacobs, Japp. " 'To Favor This New and Growing City of New Amsterdam with a Court of Justice': Relations between Rulers and Ruler in New Amsterdam." de Halve Maen , 76 (2003).

Matson, Cathy. Merchants & Empire: Trading in Colonial New York. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Middleton, Simon. From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Narrett, David E. Inheritance and Family Life in Colonial New York City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992.

Nooter, Eric and Patricia U. Bonomi, eds. Colonial Dutch Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach. New York: New York University Press, 1988.

Rink, Oliver. Holland on the Hudson: An Economic and Social History of Dutch New York. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Rose, Peter G. The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and New World. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1989.

Williams, James Homer. “Dutch Attitudes toward Indians, Africans, and Other Europeans in New Netherland, 1624-1664.” Connecting Cultures: The Netherlands in Five Centuries of Transatlantic Exchange. Edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Johanna C. Kardux. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1994.

Zimmerman, Jean. The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty. New York: Harcourt, 2006.

FOR CHILDREN

The Big Apple Journal for Kids: New Amsterdam, New York. The New-York Historical Society, 2001.

Daniel, Alan, Daniel, Lea and Penner, Jim. Meet Me at Midnight. Bothell, MA: The Wright Group, 1999. An orphan from Amsterdam sails to New Amsterdam to become a servant.

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Emerson, Caroline Dwight. The Magic Tunnel. New York, 1964. (out of print) Two children find themselves in New Amsterdam after their subway train travels through a magic tunnel.

Hults, Dorothy Niebrugge. New Amsterdam Days and Ways. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. (out of print)

Gibson, Karen Bush. New Netherland: The Dutch Settle the Hudson Valley. Hockessin, Delaware: Mitchell Lane Publishers, 2006.

Krizner, L.J. Peter Stuyvesant: New Amsterdam and the Origins of New York. New York: PowerPlus Books, 2002.

Lilly, Melinda. The Dutch in New Amsterdam. Vero Beach, Florida: Rourke Publishing, 2003.

McNeese, Tim. New Amsterdam. New York: Chelsea House Publications, 2007.

Moskin, Marietta D. Lysbet and the Fire Kittens. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1973. (out of print) The adventures of young Lysbet in New Amsterdam in 1662.

Otis, James. Peter of New Amsterdam. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Yesterday's Classics, 2007.

Spier, Peter. The Legend of New Amsterdam. New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1979. (out of print)

NEW YORK CITY REFERENCE BOOKS

Cohen, Paul E. and Augustyn, Robert T. Manhattan in Maps, 1527-1995. New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc., 1997. Includes early maps of New Amsterdam.

Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. Encyclopedia of New York City. New Haven: Yale University Press and the New-York Historical Society, 1995. Outstanding resource.

Kouwenhoven, John A. The Columbia Historical Portrait of New York: An Essay in Graphic Society. New York: Harper and Row, 1972. Excellent variety of New York City images, from the 1500s to the 1950s, with informative text.

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Stokes, I.N.P., ed. Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. 6 vols. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928. A thorough history of Manhattan, with maps and illustrations.

ADDITIONAL SOURCES

Bowne House Historical Society website www.bownehouse.org

Friends Meeting House website www.nyym.org/flushing

Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10029 (212) 534-1672 • Print and Photograph Collection

Neighborhood Preservation Center 232 East 11th Street New York, NY 10003 (212) 228-2781 www.neighborhoodpreservationcenter.org • Resource Referral: Online database containing information about New York City organizations involved in historic preservation, community revitalization and architecture. Database is accessed through the website.

New-York Historical Society 170 Central Park West New York, NY 10024 (212) 873-3400 • Print and Photograph Collection

8 • Research Library New York Public Library Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street New York, NY 10018 Reference Questions: (212) 930-0830 • Map Division • Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy • Photograph Collection • Print Collection

Queens Historical Society 143-135 37th Avenue Flushing, NY 11354 (718) 939-0647 • Manuscript Collection • Maps (1820s-present) • Photograph Collection

Queens Library 89-11 Merrick Blvd. Jamaica, NY 11432 (718) 990-0700 • Long Island Division: Books, newspapers, manuscripts, maps, and photographs.

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