John Bowne, an English settler and ardent Quaker, built the Bowne House in Flushing, NY in 1661.  He and his wife, Hannah Feake Bowne, held the Flushing Quaker Meetings there for almost 40 years.    He was eventually tried and served time in jail as a result of his religious conviction and Peter Stuyvesant's determination to limit the influence of the Quaker religious viewpoint in the settlement. 

See more here at the Bowne House Archives:  https://www.bownehouse.org/john-bowne-papers

John Bowne, angered Peter Stuyvesant by holding Quaker meetings, was exiled to the Netherlands, and argued the case for religious freedom of worship in the Netherlands to return to New Netherland in 1664.   He is associated with the Flushing Remonstrance, a document considered to be the legal first basis for freedom of religion in the United States.  

1662 Information lodged by the magistrates of Flushing against John Bowne for holding meetings...'of that abominable sect' the Quakers

1662 Resolution to Ban John Bowne