 However, New Amsterdam Director-General Peter Stuyvesant issued an edict prohibiting the harboring of Quakers.On December 27, 1657, the inhabitants of Flushing approved a protest known as The Flushing Remonstrance.This contained religious arguments even mentioning freedom for "Jews, Turks, and Egyptians," but ended with a forceful declaration that any infringement of the town charter would not be tolerated.