Podcast: Our Dutch Heritage - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog In "theory" one might add. The Quakers were reviled by the former Governor of Curacao, Peter Stuyvesant, and one arrested for being at a "service" in a barn to get out of the weather, which his significant other led (a woman) in todays Queens. He was imprisoned and sent away to a prison and many Quakers used to prostrate themselves rather than "doff their hat" to persons of authority as was the custom. John Scott led a demonstration to New Amsterdam of a couple of hundred Long Islanders in petition for religious freedom, a petition unread and torn up. He was later arrested in Setauket, NY and imprisoned in Connecticut where his seemingly pregnant wife, supplied him with the rope to make good his escape. The law required a "place of worship" that apparently would be monitored. One English Rev. Doughty from the burnt-out English village of Maspeth sought the protection of the walled "city" and it is mentioned in the history that his popular sermons in English prompted the "Dutch" to seek their own religious services to be held in New Amsterdam, where they had not, in their own language, among the thirty "tongues" it's said that could be heard there. Doughty Street in Brooklyn, nearby where the first ferry from Manhattan to Brooklyn used to land, and the Hessian police under the British in the later Revolution headquartered, is where the modern Explorers Club used to meet in New York City.
OCTOBER 4: A number of years ago, the New York Historical Society gave back to Canada an astrolabe that a farmer had found in a field Upstate, as reported in a Canadian geographic magazine. It had been lost by one of Champlain's expedition. I've read somewhere that Henry Hudson and Samuel Champlain, after their records were compared, were about 100 miles from each other on one day! There's a bust of him on a column in Riverdale in the Bronx which "looks" over the river and bay to the south. I met some Explorers Club members looking for his last stand, put off in today's Hudson Bay by the mutinous crew.
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