first quakers of New York

Ship and Passenger Information:


The Woodhouse was a small coastal trading ship, nearly unserviceable,
and too small for long ocean crossings. It was owned by Robert Fowler of
Bridlington, England, a ministering Quaker. He offered it to a Quaker group
unable to depart England due to the high fines on Captains who transported
Quakers on their vessels. He and the group arrived, after a perilous journey,
at "Nieuw Amsterdam" on August 1, 1657.
These were, then, the first Quakers of "New York".

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