Trenton Meeting lunch with Quakers walking Brooklyn to Washington DC for immigrant rights

Arrival at Trenton Meetinghouse

A group of intrepid Quakers from Flushing, Queens and Brooklyn are walking to Washington, DC with a message from the 1600s to Congress and the administration.  On May 8th, they came through Trenton, stopping at the Meetinghouse for lunch, rest  and fellowship.

The inpetus for this walk comes from the current state of affairs that threatens friends and neighbors from abroad, and the existance of a document known as “The Flushing Remonstrance”.  This document records the protest and grieviences (remonstrance) of citizens of Flushing in New York (then New Amsterdam) to Governor Stuyvesant regarding a decree targeting Quakers arriving in the area.  It is a strong statement of conscience regarding the treatment of all persons in the New World.

The Flushing Remonstrance was written and delivered in December of 1657.  One of the signers was Richard Stockton, the great-great-grandfather of the Richard Stockton for whom Stockton Street, a block from the Meetinghouse was named.  Richard Stockton the great-great-grandson, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.  As a Quaker he was buried in the Princeton Meeting’s burial ground.

Departure