The Quakers in Great Britain And America; the Religious And Political History of the Society of Friends From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
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There was a great invasion of Waldenses from Piedmont, together with Eng- lish, Scotch, Presbyterians, Anabaptists, Moravians and many more, all attracted by the promise of religious free- dom, which had been practically guaranteed by the Amster- dam Chamber of the West India Company in an address to Governor Stuyvesant. In this ponderous paper, we read, "The consciences of men," they say, "ought to be free and unshackled, so long as they continue moderate, peaceable, in- offensive and not host...ile to government. Such have been the maxims of prudence and toleration by which the magis- trates of this city have been governed; and the consequences have been that the oppressed and persecuted from every country have found among us an asylum from distress. Follow in the same steps, and you will be blest." The "Woodhouse" party, composed of Richard Hodgson, STBPfJKX GRELLET WILLIAM BOTCH Neic Bedford THE NEW YORK INVASION 477 Richard Doudney, Mary Weatherhead, Dorothy Waugh and Sarah Gibbons, was the initial Quaker movement in the Dutch colony.
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