A page from the Flushing Remonstrance, a 1657 letter from residents to the Dutch governor protesting the treatment of Quakers. The document proclaims, "Therefore if any of these said persons come in love unto us, we cannot in conscience lay violent hands upon them, but give them free egresse and regresse unto our Town, and houses, as God shall persuade our consciences, for we are bounde by the law of God and man to doe good unto all men and evil to noe man."
Photo by Museum of the City of New York
