350TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FLUSHING REMONSTRANCE
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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 New Netherland 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 John Bowne, 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.
2Cox, 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 QUEENS 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.
3Waller, 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. Brooklyn: Long Island Historical Society, 1867.
Fernow, Berthold, trans. and ed. The Records of New Amsterdam 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. Peter Stuyvesant 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).
4SOCIETY 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.
5Jacobs, 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.
6Emerson, 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.
7Stokes, 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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