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History. Old Flushing Burial Ground, used in the 17th and 18th centuries, now a park. Precolonial and colonial history. Flushing was originally inhabited by the Lenape Indians prior to colonization and European settlement. [6] Dutch colony. View of Flushing, John Bowne House, 1825.
Flushing, northern section of the borough of Queens, New York City, U.S., at the head of Flushing Bay (East River). Settled in 1645 by English Nonconformists (who had probably been living at Vlissingen [Flushing], Holland), it became a Quaker centre under the leadership of John Bowne.
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The Flushing Remonstrance, signed in Flushing on December 27, 1657, protested religious persecution and eventually led to the decision by the Dutch West India Company to allow Quakers and others to worship freely. As such, Flushing is claimed to be a birthplace of religious freedom in the new world.
In 1639 Governor William Kieft bought the land that became Queens County, and on October 10, 1645 the land that became Flushing was officially founded and named Vlissengen, after a Dutch village. The name was changed to Flushing after British takeover.
Apr 12, 2024 · Few areas of the United States have as endured as long as Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood with almost over 375 years of history and an evolving cultural landscape that includes Quakers, trees, Hollywood films, world fairs, and Asian immigrants.
The people of Flushing issue the Flushing Remonstrance to protest Governor Stuyvesant’s persecution of the Quakers; one of the first public statements on freedom of religion issued in the North American colonies, it argues that Stuyvesant violated rights granted to the colonists in their town charter. 1664.
Jun 19, 2006 · Flushing’s original Weeping Beech Tree was brought to Flushing from Belgium by Samuel Bowne Parsons in 1847 and planted on the grounds of the Parsons plant nursery. Kingsland Mansion, now home of the Queens Historical Society, was moved adjacent to the tree in the late 1920s.
