Question

The Dutch were more tolerant of diverse religious faiths. However tolerant, Governor Petrus Stuyvesant of New Netherland was a strong supporter of the Dutch Reformed Church and wanted to alienate those of other religious faiths. What petition was filed by Quakers demanding they be allowed to settle in a Dutch colony?

Answer 1

The petition filed by Quakers demanding to be allowed to settle in a Dutch colony was the 1657 Flushing Remonstrance. It was signed on December 27 by a group of citizens affronted by the persecution of Quakers and the religious policies of Stuyvesant. Maybe paradoxically, none of them were Quakers.

Answer 2

Quakers demanded for religious freedom. The Quakers were a Religiuos Society of Friends who demanded that they be allowed to practice their religion in Massachussetss.

The Religious Society of Friends began as a movement in England in the mid-17th century in Lancashire. They struggled in special ways with the relations between religion and the American Revolution.

Most orthodox Americans viewed Quaker beliefs to be radical and threatening to the social and religious order based on biblical authority.