Acquisitions
SELMA STERN-TAEUBLER,
Congregation Emanu-El, San Francisco,
Calif., Board of Directors, 1906-1913
Congregation Achenu B'nai Yisroel, New
Britain, Connecticut, Board of Officers,
1896-1901, Yiddish
Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, Baltimore, Maryland, Marriage Announcement Book, 1866-1881
Congregation Gemiluth Chasadim, Port
Gibson, Mississippi, Treasurer's Report, 1855-1869, Original
Congregation Adas Jeshurun, N e w York,
New York, 1869-1 874
Congregation Adas Jeshurun, New York,
New York, Board of Trustees, 1863'927
Congregation Adas Jeshurun, N e w York,
N e w York, Building Committee, 19011903
Congregation Anshe Chesed, New York,
New York, Records of Union Field
Plot Owners, I 878-189 I
Congregations Anshe Chesed, Rodeph
Sholom, and Shaar Hashomayim (Joint
Meetings), N e w York, New York,
1845-1846, German
Congregation Beth El (Adas Jeshurun
and Anshe Chesed), N e w York, New
York, 1874-19 10, German and English
Congregation Beth El (Adas Jeshurun and
Anshe Chesed), New York, New York,
Board of Trustees, Vols. 1-11, 18741927, German and English
Central Synagogue (Congregation Ahawath Chesed), New York, New York,
Burial Permits, I 859-193 2
Central Synagogue, New York, N e w
York, Cemetery Permits, 1874-1887
Central Synagogue, New York, New
York, Denkbuch (Marriage and Death
Records), I 849-1 874, German
Central Synagogue, New York, New
Archivist
York, Board of Trustees, Vols. I-VII,
I 867-1925, German and English
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Vols. 1-11, 1835-1888, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Board of Trustees, Vols. 1-111,
I 845-1904, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Cash Books, Vols. I-VIII, I 8 I 319 I 7, Original
CongregationBeneIsrael, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Journal Books, 19I 5-19 17, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Ledgers, Vols. I-VIII, 1841I 9 I 2, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Matzo Book, 1856, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Membership List, 19 14, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Mortuary Records, 1895-1942,
Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Pew Deeds, Vols. 1-11, 1852-1895
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Records of the Building Committee, Vols. 1-11, 1849-1 907, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Records of Temple Pews, 1836I 855, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Religious School Accounts, 1869I 879, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Roll of Members, 1867-1881,
Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, School Board, Vols. 1-11, 1854I 888, Original
Congregation Bene Israel, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Treasurer's Book, Vols. 1-11,
1851-1907, Original
Documents and letters in the Acquisitions List which are to be published in a forthcoming
volume by the American Jewish Archives will be restricted until the volume appears.
ACQUISITIONS
I37
Congregation Bene Jeshurun (Plum Street
Temple), Cincinnati, Ohio, Board of
Trustees, Vols.1-111, I 841-1872, Original
Congregation Bene Jeshurun, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Letter-Books, Vols. 1-111, 1901I 9 I 2, Original
Congregation Beneh Abraham, Portsmouth, Ohio (Supplement), I 896-1954
Congregation Beneh Abraham, Portsmouth, Ohio, Cash Book, 1862-1880,
Original
Congregation Beth Ahaba, Muskogee,
Oklahoma, Ledger, 1922-1936, Original
B'nai B'rith Lodge, No. 306, I.O.B.B.,Fort
Smith, Arkansas, 1915-1936, Original
Hebrew Literary Society, Baltimore,
Maryland, 1856-1858
Chevra Ahabath Achim (Society of
Brotherly Love), Boston, Massachusetts,
1849-1 856, Original
Chevra Gemiluth Chesed, Boston, Massachusetts, I 853-1 869, Original
Mount Sinai Hospital Society Ladies
Auxiliary, Boston, Massachusetts, 191zI 9 I 7, Original
Gideon Lodge, No. 140. I.O.B.B., Albany,
New York, 1870-1914, Original
Gideon Lodge, No. 140, I.O.B.B., Albany,
New York, Ledgers, 1902-1918, Original
Jewish Hospital Society, Cincinnati, Ohio,
Cash Book, 1853-1855, Original
Albert Einstein Medical Center (formerly
the Jewish Hospital), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I 864-1904, Microflms
Mazirer and Vicinity Relief Committee
and United Brahiner and Vicinity Relief
Committee, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Vols. 1-11, 1945-1952, English and
Yiddish, Original
Congregation Mickve Israel, Savannah,
Georgia, Charter and Constitution, I 79 I ,
Typewritten copy
Congregation B'nai El, St. Louis, Missouri,
Constitution, I 853, Revision, 1873,
German, Manuscrzpt
Congregation Montefiore, LasVegas,New
Mexico, Constitution and Bylaws, I 886,
Photostats
Central Synagogue (Congregation Ahawath Chesed), New York, New York,
Constitution, I 884, German, Printed
Congregation Shearith Israel, New York,
New York, Burial Society, Constitution,
I 89 z, Printed
Congregation Bene Jeshumn, Cincinnati,
Ohio, Constitution, no date, Manuscript
Young Men's Hebrew Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, Constitution and Bylaws,
I 87 7, Manuscript
Ladies' Hebrew Benevolent Society, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Bylaws, I 894,
Printed
ABEL,JACOBC.; Extractfrom a letter, 1851,
no place; Typewritten copy
Jacob C. Abel requests the addressee,
President Millard Fillmore, to grant him
an interview.
(Copy from the Millard Fillmore Collection, Buffalo Historical Society, Buffalo,
N. Y.)
ADOLPHUS,
ISAAC;Four letters; 1773-1774,
New York, N . Y.; Photostats
Isaac Adolphus, a trader and respected
naturalized Jew of New York, informs
William Johnson on business matters and
the delivery of goods.
(Copies from the New York State
Library, Albany, N. Y.)
138
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY,
ALEXANDER,
GIDEON;Letter, 1805, LC
Baie, Canada; Photostat
Gideon Alexander gives Ezechiel Hart
a "description of a lot of land belonging
to me and to be sold with my other lands
by the sheriff."
(Copy from the Hart Papers, SCminaire
du Saint Joseph, Three Rivers, Canada.)
ARNOLD,
BENEDICT;
Draft of a letter, 1780,
Robinson's House, Highlands; Photostat
T o Nicholas Gilman about the prospect
of exchanging Major Matthew Clarkson,
and Major David Salisbury Franks's ex~ e c t e diournev to France.
( c o i y from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.)
BEATTY,
JOHN;T w o letters, 1778, Elizabetht o m , Pa.; Photostats
In these letters, addressed to George
Washington, John Beatty discusses David
Franks's conduct with reference to the
British prisoners. "I have more than once
pointed out to Mr. Loring the impropriety
of our maintaining their prisoners and at
the same time furnishing those of ours in
their possession with cash and provisions;
he gives me for answer that Mr. Franks
is not their commissary, that they wish to
remove him, he being neither furnished
with money or authority for the purpose
of supplying their prisoners-he has, however, promised me that he will again mention to Sir Henry Clinton and endeavour
Mr.Franks's removal." H e asks for Washington's co-operation and advice.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
BINGHAM,
WILLIAM;Letter, 1780; Photostat
In a letter to Mordecai Sheftall, Bingham deplores his distressing condition as a
prisoner of war (Sheftall was at this time
"in the goal [jail] of the town of St. Johns,
Antigua, W.I."). Bingham assures him
that he will help him, try "to establish an
exchange of prisoners with the Governor
of Antigua."
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection,
Savannah, Ga.)
BLOCH,HERBERT
R.; Papers;
Baltimore, M d . ; Manuscripts
I 879-1
88 I ,
1955
Documents, letters, and wills. .
(Gift of Herbert R. Bloch, Cincinnati,
Ohio.)
BLOCK,MOSES,JACOB,AND EVA;T w o letters, 1840, Germany, Yiddish; Manuscripts
(Gift of Mrs. Myrtle Zellner, Los
Angeles, Calif.)
BOARD
OF WAR;Letter, 1778, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Photostat
T o John Beatty, with reference to David
Franks. "It seems Mr. David Franks refuses to deliver wood to the prisoners here.
W e are at a loss to account for the conduct
of this entleman on several late occasions.
W e inkrmed him of the naked situation of
the prisoners as to cloathing - he had
nothing to do with it. Many unfortunate
persons fall into our hands, captured in
merchant vessells - he has nothing to do
with them. - If he is not authorized to
take care and provide for all prisoners and
with every necessary we desire you will
inform yourself and give notice to the
commissary of prisoners or the commander
in chief of the British army that it will be
necessary to empower some person fully
to provide for all their prisoners and all
their wants, as Mr. Franks does not seem
competent to the business, we presume,
from want of authority."
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
BONAN,SIMON;Petitim, 1695, no place;
Photostat
Petition to Governor Benjamin Fletcher
to grant him letters of denization.
g o p y from the New York State
Library.)
BROWN,
JOHNCARTER,
LIBRARY;
Collectim;
vols. I-Iv, 1759-1 8 16; Photostats
Vol. I. Thirty-four letters of B r o m
and Company, prominent merchants of
Providence, R. I., to Isaac Moses, of New
York, 1806-1807; ei ht letters of Isaac
and Naphtali Hart, o f ~ e w ~ o rR.t , I., to
Nicholas Brown, 1762-1774; two letters
of Moses Michael Hays, of Newport,
R. I., to Nicholas Brown, 1769-1770;
four letters of Joseph Jacob, Hyam Levy,
Moses Levy, and Enoch Lyon, of New-
ACQUISITIONS
port, R. I., to Brown and Co., 1767-1770;
one letter of Jacob Isaacks, of Newport,
R. I., to Obadiah Brown, 1761; fifty-six
letters of Aaron Lopez, of Newport, R. I.,
to Michael, Moses, Nicholas, and Obadiah
Brown, 1761-1774; six letters of James
and John Lucena, of Newport, R. I., to
Nicholas and Obadiah Brown; 1761-1772;
seventy-three letters of Isaac Moses and
Sons, of New York, to Brown and Co.,
1804-1809; eight letters of Frances, Jacob,
and Issachar Pollock, of Newport, R. I.,
to Nicholas Brown, I 766-1 767; six letters
of Myer Polock, of Newport, R. I., to
Brown and Co., 1767-1768; forty-seven
Ietters of Jacob Rodriguez Rivera, of Newport, R. I., to Brown and Co., 1760-1775;
sixty-one miscellaneous letters to Isaac
Moses, I 805-1 806; miscellaneous correspondence.
Vol. 11. Four letters of Brown and Co.
to Judah Hays, 1807-1809; one hundred
thirty-two letters of Brown and Co. to
Aaron Lopez, I 766-1 775; sixty-six letters
of Brown and Co. to Isaac Moses and
Sons, I 794-1 8 16; sixteen letters of Brown
and Co. to Jacob Rodriguez Rivera, 17691786; four letters of Brown and Co. to
Moses Seixas, 1783-1807; fifteen letters
of Brown and Co. to Abraham Touro,
I 807-1 8 I o; fifteen letters of Judah Hays,
of Boston, Mass., to Brown and Co., I 8071814; nine letters of Aaron Lopez to
Brown and Co., 1770-1781 ; one hundred
nine letters of Isaac Moses to Brown and
Co., 1794-18 16; fourteen letters of Jacob
Rodriguez Rivera to Brown and Co.,
1 7 7 ~ ~ 1 7 8 5eighteen
;
letters of Moses
Seixas, of Newport, R. I., to Brown and
Co., 1793-1808; eighteen letters of Abraham Touro, of Boston, Mass., to Brown
and Co., 1806-1810.
Vol. 111. Sixty letters of Brown and Co.
to Aaron Lopez, I 765-1 774; eighteen
letters of Aaron Lopez to Brown and Co.,
I 764-1 78 I ;miscellaneous correspondence.
Vol. IV. Seven letters of Brown and
Co. to Isaac, Naphtali, and Sam Hart,
1759-177 I ; five letters of Brown and Co.
to Moses Michael Hays; forty-four letters
of Brown and Co. to Aaron Lopez, 17651770; six letters of Brown and Co. to
David Nassy, 1793-1795; eleven letters
of Brown and Co. to Frances, Jacob, and
Myer Polock, 1766-1767; forty-four letters of Brown and Co. to Jacob Rodriguez
Rivera, 1763-1769; twelve letters of Isaac,
Naphtali, and Sam Hart to Brown and Co.,
1762-1773; eight letters of Moses Michael
Hays to Brown and Co., 1784-1796; sixteen letters of Aaron Lopez to Brown and
Co., 1764-1769; twelve letters of David
Nassy, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Surinam,
to Brown and Co., 1793-1796; thirteen
letters of Jacob and Issachar Pollock, of
Newport, R. I., and New York, to Brown
and Co.,. 1764-1799; seven letters of
Jacob and Myer Polock to Brown and Co.,
1766-1769; twenty-five letters of Jacob
Rodriguez Rivera to Brown and Co.,
I 763-1 769; miscellaneous correspondence.
(Copies from the John Carter Brown
Library, Newport, R. I.)
BROWN,SAUL;
JACOB
ROBLES;
AND OTHERS;
T w o pctitiwns, r 695-1696, no place; Photostats
T o Benjamin Fletcher, Governor of
New York, on their Jamaica trade, and
the great losses which they had suffered
through a storm.They petition thegovernor
that European goods may be distributed
among the merchants "according to. the
proportion of their respective losses."
(Copies from the New York State
Library.)
Lttft7, 1777; C h t ~ t U ~ t
BUSH, SOLOMON;
Hill, Pa.; Photostat
The son of Mathias Bush and de uty
adjutant general of the Pennsylvania &ate
Militia describes to his friend, Henry
Lazarus, how he was wounded (a week
after the Battle of the Brandywine), and
brought home "with my thigh broke!'
(Copy from the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.)
CAMPBELL,
ALLEN;Letter, 1779, Savannah, Ga.; Photostat
T o an unnamed person addressed as
"Sir," on the subject of Mordecai Sheftall.
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection,
Savannah, Ga.)
CRONBACH,
ABRAHAM;
Colltttiwn; VOIS.
I-V, 1910-195 I, Germun, English, Hebrew; Manuscripts
I 4O
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY,
Vol. I, 1912-1951. A-D. Correspondence of Abraham Cronbach with Roy A.
Abrahams, Alfred Adler, Gordon Alport,
the American Council for Judaism, the
American Friends Service Committee,
Mary Antin, Jacob Billikopf, Paul Bjerre,
Claude G. Bowers, Martin Braun, and
Lewis Browne.
Vol. 11, 1910-1950. E-P. Correspondence with Ismar Elbogen, Havelock Ellis,
Henry Pratt Fairchild, John Haynes
Holmes, Cordell Hull, and Mordecai M.
Kaplan.
Vol. 111, 1917-1950. J-P. Correspondence with Alexander Johnson, Ernest
Jones, Horace M. Kallen, Joseph Klausner,
and "Notables" (Ezekiel Moses Ezekiel,
Gustave Ichheiser, Rufus M. Jones, Herbert H. Lehman, Theodor Reik, Gtza
Rbheim, John Nervin Sayre, Charles P.
Taft and Eleanor Taft, James H. Leuba,
Henry Monsky, Lily H. Montagu, Marjorie Penney, David Philipson, Jessie E.
Sampter, and Raymond De Saussure.)
Vol. IV, 1918-1948. R-Z.
Correspondence with various rabbis, Max Radin,
Julius Rappaport, Theodor Reik, Cecil
Roth, Morris U. Schappes, Murray Seasongood, Gerhard Scholem, and Mary
Stacy. (Included are addresses, essays,
sermons, and tracts.)
Vol. V, 1917-1950. Addresses, essays,
lectures, sermons, and unpublished papers.
The collection deals mostly with educational, religious, scientific, sociological,
social, psychoanalytical, political, philosophical, and literary problems; with civil
Ilberties, conscientious objectors, conversions, Jewish-Christian relations, intermarriages, marriage and divorce laws,
emplohent and her forrefugees, Fascism,
Communism. DaciLrn, philanthro~v. relief work fo; persecu;ed peopl;g and
groups, social work, welfare problems,
Reform Judaism, and Zionism; and with
the Anna Marie Hahn, the Leopold-Loeb,
and the Joseph McCarthy cases.
(Gift of Dr. Abraham Cronbach, Cincinnati, Ohio.)
CRONBACH,
ABRAHAM;
Papers; Vols. 1-11,
I 95 2-1 95 3 ; Manuscripts; Restricted
On the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case.
195 5
Correspondence and copies of letters, reports, pamphlets, and speeches written by
the American Civil Liberties Union; Committees to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg
Case; the Civil Rights Congress; the
Board of Rabbis of Northern California;
the National Communities Relations Advisory Council; the National Council of
the Arts, Sciences, and Professions; the
American Jewish League against Communism; the National Religion and Labor
Foundation; the Central Conference of
American Rabbis Commission on Justice
and Peace. T h e collection contains also
letters and copies of letters from Herbert
R. Bloch, S. Andhil Fineberg, S. Ral h
Harlow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Harry i&.
Hofieimer, Lester A. Jaffe, Max Lerner,
Philip Meyers, Clarence Pickett, Lessing
J. Rosenwald, Abba Hillel Silver, Douglas
V. Steere, and various clergymen, dealing
with the Rosenberg case, and expressing
their various opinions about the trial.
(Gift of Dr. Abraham Cronbach.)
CUMING,
ALEXANDER;
Ltttm, I 750, London,
England; Typewritten copy
Sir Alexander Cuming, a Scotsman, who
had rendered services to the House of
Hanover, makes the proposal to the Duke
of Bedford, "one of his Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State," "to set up a bank in
the Cherokee mountains as an inducement
for three hundred thousand families of
Jews to settle there for the improvement
of those lands as industrious honest subjects to the Legislative Authority of the
British nation under the direction and
protection of God himself as their supreme
Lawgiver, the great Ruler and Governor
of this world, and who must be acknowledged by them and by all men to be the
King of Judah and Israel."
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Colonial Records,
Atlanta, Ga.)
DE LUCENA,ABRAHAM;
Three peiitions,
I 7 I 0-1 7 I 6 , N e w York, N . Y . ; Photostats
In the first petition, addressed to Robert
Hunter, the minister of the Jewish congregation asks him for certain privileges,
usually granted to clergymen, and enjoyed
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ACQUISITIONS
by the previous ministers. In the following
two petitions, the prominent merchantshipper refers to his Jamaica trade, and
requests that he be excepted from some
restrictions on his trade with the island
of Madeira.
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
DE LUCENA,ABRAHAM;Memorandum,
I 7 1 1, no place; Photostat
T o George Clark. Accounts and lists
of provisions delivered for the present
expedition against Canada.
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
EHRENFRIED,
ALBERT; Collection; Vols.
I-VII ; Manuscripts
Articles, correspondence, notes, papers,
and reports relating to American Jewish
history, American Jewish personalities,
American Jewishphysicians, BostonJewry,
Boston congregations, conversions, European Jewish history, general history, Jews
in Masonry, medicine, immigration, literature, lodges, religion, and social problems.
(Gift of George Ehrenfried, Brookline,
Mass.)
DAVID;Letter, 186I , Philadelphia,
EINHORN,
Pa.; Photostat
David Einhorn discusses with R. Oppenheimer Jewish and political affairs, but
mostly Civil W a r problems.
(Gift of the Oppenheimer family, Baltimore, Md.),
FISHEL,MORRIS;Papers; I 846-192 8, Nashville, Tennessee; Manuscripts
Accounts, articles of agreement, business
letters, certificates, deeds, Masonic papers,
mortgages, notebooks, receipts, and wills.
Included is a ledger.
(Gift of Mrs. Daniel May, Nashville,
Tenn.)
FRANKFURTER,
FELIX; Letter, 19I 6, Cambridge, Mass.; Typewritten copy
T o Louis Marshall, on his intention to
resign from the American Jewish Committee.
(From the Jewish Advocate, June 29,
1916.)
Iq1
Three letters,
FRANKS,DAVIDSALISBURY;
I 778-1 780, Philadelphia, Pa.; Robinson's
House, Highlands; Photostats
In the first letter (1778)~Franks informs George Washington that Benedict
Arnold's health is not good; he refers to
military matters, to Brigadier General
Hartley's regiment, and to British deserters. H e writes also about a duel fought
between Major General Thomas Conway
and Brigadier General John Cadwalader.
In the last two letters (1780)~he requests
a court of inquiry into his conduct and
the same indulgence as that granted to
Colonel Richard Varick. H e intends to
write to the Pennsylvania Council.
(Copies from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
FRANKS,DAVIDSALISBURY;Draft of a
letter, 1780, Robinson's Hmse, Highlands;
Photostat
Order to Daniel W . Carthy to transport
flour to Albany. A small vessel would be
of advanta e.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
FRANKS,DAVIDSALISBURY;
Draft of a
letter, I 780, Robinson's House, Highlands;
Photostat
David Salisbury Franks asks Colonel
Fishkill Hay Udny to send "as soon as
possible two sloops for the purpose of
removing" the sick from the overcrowded
hospital near Robinson's House.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
Draft of a
FRANKS,DAVIDSALISBURY;
letter, I 780, Robinson's House, Highlands;
Photostat
T o John Lamb, a major of artillery, on
military matters, the drafting of men, the
transport of flour, and conditions in the
garrison.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
Drafts of two
FRANKS,DAVIDSALISBURY;
letters, 1780, Robinson's House, Highlmds;
Photostats
Franks informs Colonel James Livingston about orders and the stoppage of flour
AMERIC:AN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, I 9 5 5
142
and fresh provisions passing through King's
Ferry; Livingston may reserve the salt
provisions for a future occasion; he himself is unable to send him men; Livingston
may send him a copy of his instructions
from General Washin ton.
(Copies from the &ashington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
Draft of a
FRANKS,DAVIDSALISBURY;
letter, 1780, Robinson's H m e , Highlands;
Photostat
As he needs a proper certificate for men
to be transferred to the Invalid Corps,
Franks asks Dr. Charles McKnight to
send him the paper.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
FRANKS,DAVIDSALISBURY;
Draft of a
letter, I 780, Robinson's House, Highlands;
Photostat
T o Colonel Alexander Scammell, stating
that General Benedict Arnold transmitted
an order for a general return of the troops
under his commandto General Washington.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
Draft of a
FRANKS,DAVIDSALISBURY;
letter, 1780, Robinson's House, Highlands;
Photostat
Orders to Elisha Sheldon to make a
return of all troops under his command,
also to report the movements of the enemy.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
FRANKS,DAVID SALISBURY;Memorial,
I 789, N e w York, N . Y . ; Photostat
This memorial, addressed probably to
the Continental Congress, and accompanying an application for an office under
George Washington, represents a kind
of short autobiography of David Salisbury
Franks. Franks describes his activities as a
patriot during the Revolutionary War, his
appointment as aide-de-camp to General
Benedict Arnold, and his diplomatic services in Madrid, Paris, Marseilles, Morocco,
and London. "Thus I have devoted eleven
to the service of my country, in
years
all which time, I am bold to say that I have
. ..
ever been actuated by a disenterested zeal
for her honor and prosperity."
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
FRANKS,
ISAAC;TWOletters, 1780, West
Point, N . Y . ; Photostats
Isaac Franks, a gallant patriot, forage
master of the garrison of West Point,
writes to Benedicr Arnold about his receiving underweight loads of hay, and
about his efforts to obtain a scale, and the
amount of the deficiencies. H e complains
about the poor quality of the hay.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
FRANKS,
JACOB;Letter, 1760, N e w York,
N . Y . ; Photostat
The prominent merchant Jacob Franks
informs James DeLancey, governor of the
Province of New York, that he has "fitted
out the Brigantine called the 'Duke of
Norfolk.' "
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
AND DUFFIE(WORKUM)
;
FREIBERG,
JULIUS
Papers, I 880-1 897, Cincinnati, Ohio; Manuscripts
Family correspondence, mostly letters
written by Duffie and Julius Freiberg to
their daughter, Sally, on personal matters.
(Gift of Mrs. Irvin T. Westheimer,
Cincinnati, Ohio.)
FRIEDMAN,
SOPHIEG.; Papers, I 897-1 95 3,
Memphis, Tenn.; Manuscripts
Correspondence and clippings of a
Memphis attorney.
(Gift of Sophie G. Friedman, Memphis,
Tenn.)
GINZBERG,
LOUIS;Five letters, 1946-1949,
N e w York, N . Y . ; Manuscripts
T o Harry H. Mayer on personal
matters.
(Gift of Rabbi Harry H, Mayer, New
York, N. Y.)
GLAZER,
SIMON;Papers; Vols. I-V, 19031948, English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Rwsian;
Manuscripts
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ACQUISITIONS
Vols. 1-11, 1903-1934. Thecorrespondence of Simon Glazer, an Orthodox rabbi
(in Des Moines, Iowa; Seattle, Wash.;
Kansas City, Mo.; New York, N. Y.;
and, from 1907 to 1918, chief rabbi of the
United Synagogues of Montreal and Quebec, Canada), with the city hall of Montreal, Canada; Senator Albert B. Cummins;
Senator Charles Curtis; the Department
of Agriculture, Government House of
Ottawa, Canada; the HIAS; Charles
Evans Hughes; the Keren Hayesod; the
Lithuanian Legation; the mayor's office,
Ottawa, Canada; the prime minister's
office, Ottawa; the State Historical Society
of Iowa; and the United States Senate;
mostly on religious and Jewish matters,
e. g., on kosher ritual slaughtering of
an~mals,the divorce law, and civil and
religious divorce procedure; on the interned Austrian Jews and on Russian
re& ees; on the Zionist movement, the
Balaur Declaration, the establishment of
Palestine as a homeland (particularly his
correspondence with Senator Charles
Curtis) ; on his meeting with the Board of
the Standard Oil Company with regard
to Palestinian oil; and on the independence
of Lithuania.
Vol. 111. Lectures on the Bible, Mishnah, and Talmud, and notes on secular
common laws. Manuscripts.
Vol. IV. Hebrew and Yiddish papers.
Vol. V, 1926-1948. Correspondence
and papers of B. Benedict Glazer on antiSemitism, Zionism, restrictions, the Lithuanian question, and problems of mental
hygiene.
(Gift of the late Rabbi B. Benedict
Glazer of Detroit, Mich.)
Luis Gomez, one of the richest merchants of New York, who traded with
Europe and the West Indies, complains,
in this petition, addressed to Gerardus
Beekrnan, about certain restrictions upon
the export of wheat, and asks to be excepted from such provisions, and to be
encouraged in his trade, "he having laid
the foundation for a new and very considerable trade, which will be mostly
carryed on by money imported on his
account from Cura[~ao]and Jamaica, or
by bills drawn on Europe and the West
Indies, the benefit whereof to this province
your hon'rs will soon perceive by the
great quantitys of flower [sic] that will be
exported to places where yet none has
been sent from hence."
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
GOMEZ,MORDECAI;
RODRIGO
PACHECO;
OTHERS;Two pctitim, 1720, New
York, N . Y.; Photostats
T o Peter Schuyler on behalf of various
persons residing in Curasao, including
Daniel Moreno Henriquez, requesting that
the bond of John Hickford, captain of the
privateer "Hunter," be prosecuted for his
illegal capture of their sloops, the "Young
Catherine" and the "Young Adrian," with
very valuable cargoes.
(Copies from the New York State
Library.)
AND
GOTTHEIL,
RICHARD
J. H.; Papers; Vols.
1-11, 1898-193 3, French, English, German;
Photostats
Vol. I. Letters to Richard J. H. Gottheil
from: Louis D. Brandeis (1914-1919).
.,.
Arnold B. Ehrlich, Albert Einstein (1933),
GOMEZ,DANIEL;DAVIDGOMEZ;ISAAC Israel Friedlaender, Theodor Herzl (1898GOMEZ;LCttC7, 1759, NCW Y o T ~N,. Y.; 1904)~
Morris Jastrow (1915-1917)~Louis
Manuscript
Lipsky (1898-191 6), Judah L. Magnes
They inform John Smyth, an attorney (1915), Oskar Marmorek (1903-1904),
at law, about a court case against Samuel Louis Marshall (1917)~James A. MontJohnson.
gomery (1927), Max Nordau (1914)~
(Gift of George J. Miller, South Orange, Jesse E. Sampter (19I 7), Jacob H. Schiff
(1917), Oscar S. Straus ( I ~ I O and
) , Israel
N. J.)
Zangwill (1898-1917).
GOMEZ,LUIS(LEWISMOSESGOMEZ)AND
Vol. 11. Letters from Gottheil to the
SON; Pctitirm, 1710, New York, N . Y.; Actions Committee of the Zionist OrPhotostat
ganization, Vienna (1898-1903), Louis
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AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1 9 5 5
D. Brandeis (19 19), Theodor Herzl (18981904), and others, on biblical, educational,
literary, political, religious, and scientific
problems, but mostly on the Zionist movement, on Zionist leaders and congresses,
and on Gottheil's political activity in the
United States.
(Copies from the Zionist Archives and
Library, New York, N . Y.)
GRATZ,MIRIAM;Letter, I 794, Baltimore,
M d . ; Photostat
Miriam, the daughter of Joseph Simon,
and the wife of Michael Gratz, writes to
her daughter, Rebecca, that Michael's
health has improved. She refers also to
relatives and friends in Baltimore.
(Copy from the Mordecai Papers,
Library of Congress.)
GUNN,JAMES;Lctter, no date, N e w York,
N. Y . ; Photoitat
In this letter, addressed to Mordecai
Sheftall, James GUM, a congressman, refers to Sheftall's proposed appointment as
an excise officer. "Should such appointment be thought advisable, I will put you
in nomination for Georgia, and I have no
doubt but that your services and sacrifices
made in the late war [the Revolutionary
War] will be gratefully remembered."
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
HABERSHAM,
JAMES;Lctter, I 756, Savannah, Ga.; Typewritten copy
T o John Reynolds, governor of Georgia,
mentioning Abraham Minis.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
HABERSHAM,
JAMES;Extract from a letter,
1772, Sawannah, Ga.; Typcwrittcn copy
James Habersham informs the Earl of
Hillsborough about Joseph Ottolenghe's
activity in the silk industry.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
HART, JACOB; TWOletters, I 8 I 6-1 8 18,
Easton, Pa.; Photostats
In the first letter, Jacob Hart discusses
with Thomas J. Rogers, the congressman,
the sale of his land, and political matters;
in the second, he thanks Rogers for his
friendship, and writes about his claims,
and the serious sickness of his daughter.
(Copy from the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.)
HART,MOSES;Letter, 1807, Three Rivers,
Canada; Photostat
T o James Kerr on real estate matters.
(Copy from the Hart Papers, Stminaire
du Saint Joseph, Three Rivers, Canada.)
HART, NAPHTALI;Letter, I 8 I 7, Easton,
Pa.; Photostat
T o an unnamed person, whom Hart addresses as "Sir," about his intention of
becoming inspector of domestic liquors.
(Copy from the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.)
HAYS,MOSESMICHAEL;PAULREVERE;
AND OTHERS;Lctter, 1791, Boston, Mass.;
Photostat
T h e committee of the Massachusetts
Grand Lodge of the Masons thanks
"Brother Bently" for his ingenious discourse.
(Copy from the American Antiquarian
Society, Worcester, Mass.)
Cincirmati, Ohio;
HEBREW
UNIONCOLLEGE,
Papers (Supplcmcnt) ;Manuscripts
Correspondence concerning the proposed dismissal of Gotthard Deutsch; and
addresses, reports, and memorial letters
on the death of Edward L. Heinsheimer,
President of the Board of Governors of
the Hebrew Union College.
(Gift of the Hebrew Union College,
Cincinnati, Ohio.)
HILLSBOROUGH,
EARLOF; Extract from a
letter, I 769, L a d o n , England; Typewritten
COPY
T o James Wright, governor of Georgia,
concerning Joseph Ottolenghe.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
HIRSCH,MAYER;Papers; I 8z 3-1 8 39, Germany, German and Yiddish; Manuscripts
Family letters, affidavits, diplomas, legal
papers, and references.
ACQUISITIONS
(Gift of the Hirsch family, Cincinnati,
Ohio.)
HOUSTON,
J.; Letter, I 778, Savannah, Ga.;
Photostat
T o Mordecai Sheftall on supplies in
his possession.
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
ISACKS,JOSEPH;Petition, 1691, no place;
Photostat
Joseph. Isacks enlisted in the militia
during King William's War, "willing to
doe their Maj'tys all the service he could
in those late troublesome times." His gun
was taken away from him by Thomas
Clark, and he asks of Richard Ingoldesby,
the commander in chief, that it be given
back to him.
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
ISRAEL,JUDAH; TWOletters, 17 38-1740,
Newport, R. I.; Photostats
T o Joseph Sherburn on business matters,
and on a sworn testimony.
(Copy from the Supreme Judicial Court,
Boston, Mass.)
JACKSON,
JAMES;Letter, I 794, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Photostat
General James Jackson, one of the representatives from Georgia, who presented
to George Washington the address of the
Savannah congregation, discusses political
matters with Mordecai Sheftall, the addressee. H e finds the prospect gloomy, but
he hopes that a war may be avoided.
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
JACOB,C. I.; Extract from a letter, 18jo,
Brooklyn, N . Y . ; Typewritten copy
In this letter, addressed to Millard
Fillmore, C. I. Jacob criticizes the cabinet
of Zachary Taylor; he awaits with anxiety
the announcement of Fillmore's cabinet.
[It is not certain that Jacob was a Jew.]
(Copy from the Buffalo Historical
Society .)
JACOBS,SAMUEL;Collection; I 766-1 786,
Montreal, Quebec, and St. Denis, Canada;
English, French, Yiddish; Photostats
Accounts, affidavits, bills, business papers, certificates, receipts, testimonies,
wills, and correspondence of Samuel Jacobs
with William Grant, his son Samuel
Jacobs, Samuel Judah, John Raymond,
Robert Russel, and others, mostly on
business and financial matters. Included
are letters of Aaron Hart (1775-179 j),
Manuel Josephson (1761), Samuel Judah
(1~80-178z),and Benjamin Lyons (1780),
and accounts concerning David and Moses
F r a n k s ' ( 1 7 7 3 - I ~ ~ ~and
) Levy, Trent, and
Company (1763). There is also a printed
obituary of Henry Hague Judah (18081883).
(Copies from the Public Archives of
Canada, Ottawa, Canada.)
JONAS,JOSEPH;TWOletters, I 868, Mobile,
Ala.; Manuscripts
Personal letters written by Joseph Jonas
to his daughter, Sallie M . O~penheim.
(Gift of the Hebrew Union College
Library, Cincinnati, Ohio.)
JOSEPH,HENRY; Collection; Vols. 1-111,
I 746-1 797, English, German, Yiddish;
Photostats, Microfilms; Partly restricted
Correspondence, mostly between Barnard and Michael Gratz, on business
matters, the French and Indian War, their
activities as war commissaries, and personal affairs. Also, correspondence with
members of their family, business acquaintances, relatives, and friends, such
as Isaac Adolphus, Solomon Etting, Simon
Gratz, Solomon Henry, Isaac Moses, and
Joseph Simon.
Included are accounts, business papers,
deeds, and indentures.
T h e collection contains also ~ e r s o n a l
letters sent to Rebecca Gratz or written
by her to her family, and documents relating to Aaron Levy (178r-r797), e. g-, an
indenture between Aaron Levy and Morgan Jenking (1781).
(Gift of Mrs. Henry Joseph, Montreal,
Canada.)
KUHN, ISAAC;p q m ; 1903-!9 j z , Champaign, Ill.; Chicago, Ill.; Cincznnatr, Ohio;
Detroit, Mich.; St. Laris, Mo.; Urbana,
Ill.; Manuscripts
1 4 ~
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 195 5
Correspondence with Edward Chauncy
Baldwin, Henry Berkowitz, Boris D.
Bogen, Russell E. Elliot, Benjamin M.
Frankel, the Hillel Foundation, David
Kinley, Edward Sonnenschein, Joseph
Stolz, and the Young Men's Christian
Association, on Jewish problems.
(Gift of Isaac Kuhn, Champaign, 111.)
LEVI, LEONE; Extracts f r m two letters,
I 85 1-1 85 Z, Edinburgh, Scotland; Typewritten copies
Leone Levi tells Millard Fillmore, the
addressee, about his work on "Commercial
Law," comparing British mercantile law
with the codes and laws of commerce of
all civilized nations, and he seeks Fillmore's patronage and support.
(Copies from the Millard Fillmore Papers, Buffalo Historical Society.)
superintendent for Indian affairs, that the
Indians (during the French and>Indian
War), "without provocation, or any other
injury, or ill treatment from us, did in the
spring of the year 1763 seize all our effects
that were in their towns, or on the roads
leading to them, divide them amongst
them, destroy all our books, and papers,
wantonly, and inhumanly puting our people to death, torturing some of them whole
days and nights."
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
LEVY,URIAHP.; Letters, I 860, On Board
the U . S. S. "Macedunian"; Microfilms
Letters written by Uriah P. Levy to the
Secretary of the Navy.
(Copies from the National Archives,
Washington, D. C.)
LOPEZCOLLECTION;
Forty letters, I 82 21828, N e w York, N . Y . ; Manuscripts
Correspondence of Aaron L. Gomez,
Joseph Lopez, Moses Lopez, and Samuel
Lopez on personal matters, but mostly
concerning Abraham Touro's will, and
Rebecca Touro's petition to the Assembly
of the State of Rhode Island, asking that
Stephen Gould be appointed an agent to
take care of the synagogue and the burial
ground of Newport, R. I., because the
LEVY,ISAAC;Letter, 1739, Boston, Mass.; ancient members of the Hebrew Congregation who once settled at Newport
Photostat
T o Judah Israel on business and financial "died or moved away." "Our Society
matters.
dwindled away [Moses Lopez to Stephen
(Copy from the Judicial Court, Boston, Gould, I 8z 31 to the two families of Lopez
and Seixas, the syna ogue has been shut up
Mass.)
and the five books of Moses were removed
DE LUCENA; from it to prevent their being mined by
LEVY, MOSES;ABRAHAM
RODRIGOPACHECO;LUIS GOMEZ; AND the dampness.. . They are now in this
OTHERS;
Petitiun, no date, no place; Photostat city [New York] perhaps never to return
They ask Robert Hunter, governor pf to the same place again unless in progress
the Province of New York, to "give leave of time a congregation settles once more
for the said ship ['Hourglass'] to proceed at Newport."
to Virginia under convoy."
Included are Rebecca Touro's petition
(Copy from the New York State to the Assembly of Rhode Island, and
Library.)
copies of miscellaneous material in the
Onderdonk Collection, San Antonio, Tex.
LEVY, TRENT, AND COMPANY,AND
(Gift of Miss Eleanor Onderdonk and
OTHERS; Letter, 1765. Carlisle, Pa.; Rabbi David Jacobson, San Antonio, Tex.)
Photostat
They inform William Johnson, the LOPEZ,JOSEPH;TWOletters, I 82 2, N e w
LEVINE,JOSEPHM.; Collection (Supplement), 19I 2-1 948 ; Munuscripts
Correspondence of Stephen S. Wise on
personal, political, and Jewish matters, on
the Free Synagogue, New York, and Zionism, and on friends and enemies, as well
as a description of a trip to Palestine in
1935.
(Gift of Judge Joseph M. Levine, New
York, N. Y.)
.
ACQUISITIONS
York, N . Y.; Greenwich, R. I.; Manuscripts
Joseph Lopez informs Stephen Gould
about the death of his cousin, Jacob Lopez,
a brother of Moses Lopez.
(Gift of Rabbi David Jacobson, San
Antonio, Tex.)
LOPEZ,MOSES;Five letters, I 82 5-1 828,
N e w York, N . Y.; Manuscripts
T o Stephen Gould on a mortgage
matter.
(Gift of Rabbi David Jacobson, San
Antonio, Tex.)
LORDS
OF TRADE,
London, England; Letter,
1756; Typewritten copy
A warrant from the Lords of Trade,
directing Benjamin Martyn, secretary to
the trustees of Georgia, to pay Joseph
Ottolenghe the sum of £roo as a reward
for his past services in attending to and
supervising the culture of silk in that
colony.
(Copy from the State Department of
Atlanta, Ga.,
Archives and Histor
Colonial Records of E;orgia, VOI. 34,
P. 207.)
LORDS
OF TRADE,
London, England; Letter,
I 7 58 ; Typewritten copy
T o the lieutenant governor of Georgia,
Henry Ellis. "It is not without the greatest
indignation that we do upon this occasion
reflect upon the conduct and narrowminded jealousy of Mr. [Joseph] Ottolenghe, and the ungrateful return he
makes for the favours and indulgencys
which [we] have shewn to him; we desire
you will represent this to him in the
stron est terms." Ellis may look out for a
quali8ed person as 0ttolenghe7s successor
upon his death, "which on account of his
age and infirmities cannot be a very remote
event."
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga., Colonial Records of Georgia, Vol. 34, pp.
2 29-2 30.)
LORDSOF TRADE,London, England; Four
letters, r 762-1 763; Typewritten copies
T o James Wright, governor of Georgia,
with reference to the management of the
silk culture, and the question of Joseph
Ottolenghe's successor. "We are sorry
to find Mr. Ottolenghe still continues to
entertain such unreasonable jealousies and
suspicions as to the appointment of a
proper person to succeed to the direction
of the silk culture upon his death, but we
trust these suspicions will be removed
when you assure him, from us, that, as
far as we can answer for such a contingency, he will never be suffered to
want that support his services have so well
deserved."
(Copies from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.,
Colonial Records of Georgia, Vol. 34,
pp. 514-534.)
LUCENA,JACOB;Petition, 1678, no place;
Photostat
Jacob Lucena, forbidden to send a load
of merchandise up the Hudson River, asks
Edmund Andros, governor of the Province
of New York, to grant him a pass to trade
in Albany and Esopus (Kingston).
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
LUCENA,
JOHNCHARLES;
MOSESNUNES;
AND OTHERS; Petition, 1775, no place;
Typewritten copy
As Tories, these men protest to the
King of England [George 1111 that their
civil and religious liberties have been
subverted because the ~ro-Britishrector
of Christ Church Parish, in Savannah, Ga.,
has been silenced. They ~ o i nout
t that the
chairman and one or more of the m e m F
of a parochial committee of rebels are
persons professing the Jewish religion,"
and that they have appointed "a layman
and of doubtful religious character to
perform divine service in the church."
"Thus oppressed as we are in our civil and
religious rights by those unconstitutional
bodies, we think it our duty to testify our
allegiance to his Majesty, to express our
abhorrence of those unlawful proceedings,
and to deplore our unhappy situation."
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga., Colonial Records of Georgia, Vol. 38, Part
11, p. 19.)
1 4 ~
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1 9 5 5
MAGNES,JUDAH LEON; Letter, 1948,
Jerusalem, Israel; Manuscript
In this letter, addressed to Harry H.
Mayer, Judah Leon Magnes regrets that
after "two generations of intensive labor"
and creativity in peaceful development,
the tragedy of the war brought the need
and impetus to "build Zion in blood."
(Gift of Rabbi Harry H. Mayer.)
MARTYN,BENJAMIN;TWOletters and excerpts f rum two letters, 1 73 2-1 7 3 3, no place;
Typewritten copies
The secretary to the trustees of Georgia
writes to James Oglethorpe that the
trustees "have heard with concern of the
arrival of forty Jews with a design to
settle in Georgia. They hope they will
meet with no sort of encouragement, and
desire, Sir, you will use your endeavours
that the said Jews may be allowed no
kind of settlement with any of the grantees,
the trustees being apprehensive they will
be of prejudice to the trade and welfare of
the colony." In another letter Martyn
says that the trustees are very much
pleased with the behavior of the Jewish
physician, Dr. Samuel hTunez, and the
service he has rendered to the sick.
(Copies from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga., Colonial Records of Georgia, Vol. 29, pp.
38-39 and pp. 40-41 .)
MARTYN,
BENJAMIN;
Letter, I7 5 I, Georgia;
Typewritten copy
Benjamin Martyn informs Henry Parker
that Joseph Ottolenghe, "a very sensible
man, and a serious, well-disposed Christian," will reside in Georgia as a catechist
for instructing the Negroes.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
Included is a resolution (1779)~issued
by the Council and the governor, that the
petitioners "may be permitted to go to
Charlestown, there to remain until the
rebellion is over."
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
MONTEFIORE,
MOSES;Letter, I 880, Ramsgate, England; Manuscript
T o Alfred T. Jones, editor of the
Jewish Record (Philadelphia), on the devotion of Jews to one another.
(Gift of Rabbi Harry W . Ettelson,
Memphis, Tenn.)
MORRIS,
ISAAC
A.; Letter and extract from
a letter, 1850-1 85 I , Berkley's Run, Taylor
County, Va.; Typewritten copies
Isaac A. Morris asks Millard Fillmore
for an appointment as a clerk in one of the
departments in Washington, D. C. [Morris
may not have been a Jew.]
(Copy from the Buffalo Historical
Society.)
MYERS FAMILY; Papers (Suppleme~rt);
Vols. 1-11, 1790-1 883; English, French;
Photostats
Accounts, affidavits,appointments, bills,
certificates, deeds, genealogies, invoices,
notes, receipts, resolutions, statements,
and correspondence of Barton Myers, John
Myers, Moses Myers, Moses Myers 11,
Myer Myers, Samuel Myers, and Judith
Marx Myers with friends and business
acquaintances.
(Gift of Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern,
Norfolk, Va.)
NATHAN,
SIMON;Letter, I 78 3, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Photostat
Simon Nathan thanks Joseph Reed, the
addressee, for his generous help in inM r ~ r s ,ABIGAIL;LEAH MINIS; ESTHER teresting himself in his behalf. "You have
MINIS;JUDYMINIS; ANNAMINIS; AND snatched me from the precipice of a ruined
SALLYMINIS; Petition, I 779, no place; future, saved my family and self from the
Typewritten copy
acute feelings inseperable from disappointT o Governor James Wright and the ment and dependence."
(Copy from the Joseph Reed Papers,
Royal Council of Georgia. Belonging to
the Whig party, they are persecuted. They Library of Congress.)
ask permission to go to Charlestown,
NATHANSFAMILY; Papers; Twenty-six
S. C.
ACQUISITIONS
'49
items, 1798-1865, Batavia, N . Y . ; Harrisburg, Pa.; Lancnster, Pa.; Philadelphia, Pa.;
Pittsburgh, Pa.; Wilmington, Del.; Photostats
Certificates (e. g., the certificate of
naturalization of Isaiah Nathans, a native
of Germany, in 1798, at Philadelphia, Pa.),
but mostly the correspondence of David
Nathanswith Isaiah Nathans (1826-1 828) ;
Moses Nathans with Daniel de Silva Solis
(I 830) ; Benvenida Valentina de Silva Solis
with Isabella Nathans (I 8 30) ; Benvenida
Valentina de Silva Solis with Moses
Nathans (18 30) ; and Daniel de Silva Solis
with Isaiah Nathans, concerning business
matters, Masonic affairs, and the engagement of Benvenida, daughter of Daniel
de Silva Solis, to Moses Nathans.
(Gift of Mrs. h4elvin M. Franklin,
N e w York, N. Y.)
Hamilton, Ohio, and their relatives, on
personal matters and on trips to Europe.
(Gift of Mrs. Samuel Rice, Cincinnati,
Ohio.)
NOAH,MORDECAIMANUEL;TWOletters,
1820, N e w York, N . Y . ; Photostats
T o John Quincy Adams on the purchase
of Grand Island, N. Y.
(Copy from the National Archives.)
ROCKDALE
AVENUETEMPLE
(Bene Israel
Congregation), Cincinnati, Ohio; Papers;
Vols. I-XXV; Manuscripts
Correspondence of David Philipson, and
general correspondence of the congregation on congregational matters.
(Gift of the Rockdale Avenue Temple,
Cincinnati, Ohio.)
NOAH,MORDECAI
MANUEL;Letter, 1843,
N e w York, N . Y . ; Photostat; Restricted
T o George Folsom about "a very
curious account of a discovery recently
madeofacolony ofJews in the Cordilleras."
(Copy from the New York Historical
Society.)
REYNOLDS,
JOHN;T w o letters, r 75 5-1756,
Savannah, Ga.; Typewritten copies
John Reynolds tells the Lords of Trade,
in London, England, about Joseph OttoIenghe's activity in the silk industry, his
zeal in promoting the silk culture, his
good judgment, but also about his jealousy
of any rival, and his desire of "making
himself solely necessary."
(Copies from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
RICE,SAMUEL;Correspmdence; I 868- I 904,
Augsburg, Germany; Huerben, Germany;
Cincinnati, Ohio; Hamilton, Ohio; Hoboken,
N . J.; English and German; Photostats
Correspondence between German Jewish and American Jewish families, especially between the Strauss family of
ROBLES,DAVIDAND JACOB;Perition, 1687,
Province of N e w York; Photostat
Forced to leave their native France
(they were probably victims of the order
of Louis XIV, issued in 1685, revoking
the EJict of Nantes), David and Jacob
Robles came to America "with design to
plant and settle here." They request
Anthony Brockholls and the other members of the Royal Council of the Province
of New York to grant them letters of
denization.
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
ROOSEVELT,
FRANKLIND.; Letter, I 94 I ,
Washington, D . C.; Manuscript
Greetings to the delegates to the Biennial Council of the Union of American
Hebrew Congregations (held in Detroit,
Mich.), "who are meeting to strengthen
the work of religion. T h e world is in great
need of the Word of God at this particular
time."
(Gift of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations.)
WILHELMINE;
CorrespondROSENMANN,
ence; I 848-1904, Fuerth, Germany; Munich,
Germany; Zurich, Switzerland; Philadelphia,
Pu.; Youngstown, Ohio; Photostats
Family letters on personal affairs.
(Gift of Mrs. Wilhelmine Rosenmann,
Youngstown, Ohio.)
SABATH,ADOLPHJOACHIM;Papers; 1914r 9 5z ; Manuscripts
Correspondence with Ralph Hurley
(19 16), Richard Kaminslzie (1914-1916),
'so
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY,
John McMahon (1915-1916), and Franklin D. Roosevelt, on Navy Department
cases, and on an alleged insult to Sabath
by a navy officer; also miscellaneous requests and printed co ies of bills submitted by Sabath to C!ongress.
Included
is a book of Memorial Addresses delivered
in Congress on the occasion of Sabath's
death, in 1951.
(Gift of Rabbi Leonard J. Mervis,
Chicago, Ill.)
SCHIFF, JACOBH.; Correspmdenre; One
hundred thirty letters, 1914-1926; Manuscripts
Correspondence of Jacob H . Schiff with
Bernard M. Baruch, Kaufmann Kohler,
Irving Lehman, Walter Lippmann, Judah
L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, Herbert
Samuel, Oscar S. Straus, Henrietta Szold,
William Howard Taft, Joseph P. Tumulty,
Woodrow Wilson, and Israel Zangwill,
on Jewish, social, and olitical matters.
(Gift of the Schiff tmily.)
SCHUYLER,
SHINA; Three letters, 1794I 795. Lmsingburgh, Pa.; Photostats
Mrs. Nicholas Schuyler, daughter of
Joseph Simon, of Lancaster, Pa., who had
married a Gentile, writes to her niece,
Richea Gratz, who later became the wife
of Samuel Hays, on personal and family
matters.
(Copies from the Mordecai Papers,
Library of Congress.)
195 5
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
SHEFTALL,
FRANCES;
Letter, I 780, Charlestown, S. C.; Photostat
Frances Sheftall is happy that her husband, Mordecai Sheftall, to whom the
letter is addressed, and her son, Sheftall
Shefiall, are in good health while prisoners
of the English Army, but she is also
miserable at hearing that both are in such
great distress. She hopes that she can send
something for their relief.
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
SHEFTAL~,
MORDECAI;
Draft of a letter,
I 78 5, no place; Photostat
This letter, signed "a real citizen," and
published in the January I 3, 1785, issue
of the Georgia Gazette, was written by
Mordecai Sheftall to vindicate the Jews
of Georgia of the Revolutionary period.
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
SHEFTALL,
MORDECAI;
Letter, I 793, Savannah, Ga.; Photostat
T o his son, Sheftall Sheftall, stating that
he is "determined to endeavour to get
justice done me" (from the American
government, for his losses during the
Revolutionary War.)
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
SHEFTALL,
MORDECAI;
Letter, 1794, Savannah, Ga.; Typewritten copy
Sheftall offers a cargo of arms to George
SHEFTALL,
BENJAM~N;
Letter, 1798, SUVU~I- Mathis, governor of Georgia, as he
believes "it [the cargo] to be a great
nah, Ga.; Typewritten copy
Benjamin Sheftall, the son of Mordecai acquisition to the United States."
(Copy from the State Department of
Sheftall, sends to Colonel Josiah Tattnall
a list of thirty names "subscribed for the Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
purpose of forming ourselves into a volunSHEFTALL,MORDECAI;Petition, 1794,
teer company."
(Copy from the State Department of Savannah, Ga.; Photostat
In this petition, addressed to the "PresArchives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
ident of the Senate and the Speaker and
SHEFTALL,BENJAMIN;Letter, 1833, no Members of the Legislature for the State
of Georgia," Mordecai Sheftall asks that
place; Typewritten cop-y
BenjaminSheftall informs Wilson Lump- there be issued an order not to sell a tract
kin, governor of the State of Georgia, of land, which he had purchased. H e reabout his election as justice of the peace minds the Assembly that he has conin the Cherokee Hill District of Chatham siderable demands against the state.
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
County, Ga.
ACQUISITIONS
SHEFTALL,MORDECAI,
AND OTHERPRIW A R ;Letter, 1779, St. Johns,
Antigua, West Indies; Photostat
Probably to the Continental Congress.
"We are some of those unfortunate men
who became prisoners of war, at the time
that the British troops entered and took
possession of the State of Georgia where
we remained on our paroles at the town of
Sunbury in said state, until1 the 17th day
of October last, when we where left without any kind of protection, or any things
to subsiste upon." The narrative of their
sufferings after the British garrison at
Sunbury withdrew and the Tory irregulars
moved in, their flight, and their imprisonment by the British in Antigua, West
Indies. They ask the Congress to help
them so that they can "return to our
native country and friends."
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
SONERS OF
.
SHEFTALL,
MOSES;Letter, I 79 I , Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostat
T o his father, Mordecai Sheftall, on
business and personal matters.
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
SHEFTALL,
MOSES;Letter, I 800, Savannah,
Ga.; Typewritten copy
The physician informs the mayor of
Savannah (during an epidemic) that he
found only twelve persons infected with
smallpox.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
SHEFTALL,
SHEFTALL;Letter, I 78 I , On
Board the sloop "Carolina"; Photostat
As flagmaster, Sheflall Sheftall informs
Brigadier General William Moultrie about
a sailor's desertion.
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
While writing to his father about two
Yom Kippur prayer books, Shefmll SheftaIl
informs him also of his intercession in the
interest of Mordecai's claims against the
government, and of his conversations with
Alexander Hamilton.
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
SHEFTALL,
SHEFTALL;
Lctter, I 79 2, Philadelphia, Pa.; Typewritten copy
Sheftall asks Horatio Marbury for a certified copy of James Habersham's last will.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
SHEFTALL,
SHEFTALL
AND MOSES;Letter,
1798, Savannah, Ga.; Photostat
Sheftall and Moses Sheftall once more
call the attention of J. Milledge, the
addressee, to the claim "which our father
had against the United States." He
(Mordecai Sheftall) "was well known for
his attachment to his country and for it
sacrificed a handsome fortune and sufferd
in his erson by long confinement in
prison s k p and jails."
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
SHEFTALL,
SOLOMON;
LCtter, I 86 I , Savannah, Ga.; Typewritten copy
An application to Joseph Brown for an
appointment as a surgeon in the army of
Georgia. Having been a volunteer in 'the
Republican Blues during the War of I 8 I 2 ,
Solomon Sheftall is desirous of serving
his country again.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
SHEFTALL,
SHEFTALL;Letter, 1792, Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostat
T o Alexander Hamilton, concerning a
petition of Mordecai Sheftall to the House
of Representatives.
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
SIMSON,
SAMPSON;
Five letten, I 757-1 759,
N e w York, N . Y . ; Photostats
Sampson Simson, a prominent merchant
and citizen of New York, who was engaged in privateering during the Seven
Years' W a r (the French and Indian War),
asks James DeLancey, Governor of the
Province of New York, to grant commissions to the captains of his ships.
(Copies from the New York State
Library.)
SHEFTALL,
SHEFTALL;
Letter, 1792: Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostat
SIMSON,SAMPSON;T w o letters,
N e w York. N . Y . : Photostats
I 769?,
ISz
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1 9 5 5
T o William Johnson on his trade and
business transactions.
(Copies from the New York State
Library.)
STOWE,HARRIETBEECHER;Letter, I 854,
Andover, Mass.; Photostat
T o Isaac Mayer Wise, acknowledging
the receipt of his book, History of the
Israelitish Nation.
(Gift of Rabbi Selig Salkowitz, Marion,
Ohio.)
TOBIAS,
THOMAS
J.; Collection; Vols. 1-11,
r 764-1 893; Photostats
This collection contains rich source material (letters, resolutions, contracts, and
other documents) relating to Southern
Jewish families, e. g., notes on the Alexander family written into Isaac Leeser's
prayer books; the marriage agreement of
Joseph Albert Alexander, son of Aaron
Alexander, of Atlanta, Ga., dated 1874,
before he married Sara Nathans Solomons,
of Charleston, S. C.; this document is
signed by Jacob Lopez Cardozo, minister
of Congregation Beth Elohim, of Charleston, S. C.; the original contract of Congregation Beth Elohim, of Charleston,
S. C., for the building of a synagogue, and
other documents, r 839; the constitution
of Congregation Beth Elohim with handwritten revisions, 187 r; entries in the
Bible on the Lazarus, Lyons, DeLyon, and
Mordecai families; an indenture made
between Joshua Lazarus, of Cheraw, S. C.,
and Phoebe Yates, of Liverpool, England,
and a post-nuptial settlement between
Joshua Lazarus, Benjamin D. Lazarus, and
Philip Phillips, 1836; the discharge papers
of Major Joshua Lazarus, of Cheraw,
S. C., brigade major, 1830, he having
served for seven years; a Hebrew manuscript, "made in Columbia, S. C., 1 8 6 ~ , "
signed by Edgar M. Lazarus and others;
papers concerning Edgar M. Lazarus, his
enlistment and his service as a private in
the Confederate Army, and his oath of
allegiance; entries on the Mordecai family in the Holy Bible (the property of
Moses C. Mordecai), 1764-1873; an indenture, signed by Moses C. Mordecai
and his parmers, to dissolve the firm of
Mordecai & Co., 1862; a letter from
Mayor William A. Courtney, of Charleston, S. C., to Mrs. Isabel Lyons Mordecai,
on the death of her husband, Moses C.
Mordecai, 1889; the oath of allegiance
of Emily Minis (nte Tobias), of Charleston, S. C., to the United States, at Savannah, Ga., in 1865, before the United
States provost marshal; the grant of a
pass to Mrs. Emily Minis and Mrs.
Rosalie Cohen t o enter Savannah, 1865;
notebooks containing moral homilies,
poems, and other notes, made apparently
in 1850. T h e author is unknown; notes
on the Tobias family (records of deaths
and marriages) in their family Bible,
beginning in 1761; the receipt issued to
Abraham Tobias, a wealthy Charleston,
S. C., Jewish merchant, on his purchasing
a handsome house, 1843; six "slave bills
of sale" to Abraham Tobias, 1834-1857;
the resolutions of the board of directors
of the Union Bank of South Carolina on
the death of their fellow-director, Abraham Tobias, of Charleston (1793-1856);
the resolutions adopted by the Board of
Health, of Charleston, S. C., in 1893, on
the death of Joseph L. Tobias (18251 8 9 3 ) ~a member of the board for ten
years.
(Gift of Thomas J. Tobias, Charleston,
s. C.)
T o u ~ o ABRAHAM
,
~ S H A CDE; Letter, r 770,
N e w York, N . Y . , Portuguese; Photostat
Touro tells Aaron Lopez, the addressee,
about his trip to New York, the friends
he meets, and their hospitality and kindness, and he thanks Lopez for all his
favors, asking him to give his regards to
his friends in Newport, R. I., especially
t o "my intimate friend and sir, your
father-in-law" (Jacob Rodriguez Rivera).
(Copy from the American Jewish Historical Society, New York, N. Y.)
ULLMANN,DANIEL;Four letters and extracts from nine letters, I 850-1 85 r ; N e w
York, N . Y.; Typewritten copies
In these private and confidential letters,
Daniel Ullxnann discusses with Millard
Fillmore political matters, conventions,
meetings, and conversations with poIiti-
ACQUISITIONS
cians. H e will attend the Syracuse convention as a delegate, will support Fillmore's
administration, and will reaffirm Whig
principles. "The message [delivered by
Fillmore] was all that your friends could
have wished. N o annual message of a
President since the days of Washington
has received A larger share of the approbation of the American people." [Ullmann
may not have been a Jew.]
(Copies from the Millard Fillmore
Papers, Buffalo Historical Society.)
Draft of a letter, 1780,
VARICK,RICHARD;
Robinson's House, Highlands; Photostat
T o Isaac Franks, on the subject of
Commandant John Lamb's request for the
appointment of persons to estimate the
quantities of hay sent to W e s t Point.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
Letter, I 7 3 6, no place;
VERELST,HARMAN;
Typewritten copy
T o James Oglethorpe, referring to a
complaint of Jeudiah Senior Henriquez
against Abraham DeLyon.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Georgia,
Colonial Records of Georgia, Vol. 29,
p. 301.)
VERELST,HARMAN;
Letter, I 7 3 8, no place;
Typewritten copy
Harman Verelst informs Abraham
DeLyon that, his petition with reference
to propagating vines in Georgia having
been read and approved of in Common
Council, General James Oglethorpe will
advance him £ 2 0 0 sterling.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
WASHINGTON,
GEORGE;Draft qf a letter,
I 780, Headquarters, Preakness; Photostat
George Washington accedes to the
request of David Salisbury Franks, the
addressee, that Washington investigate
his conduct and establish a court of
inquiry. (The draft of this letter is in
Alexander Hamilton's handwriting.)
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
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WASHINGTON,
GEORGE;Draft of a letter,
I 780, Headquarters, Preakness; Photostat
Washington asks Major General William Heath to appoint a court of inquiry
for Lieutenant Colonel Richard Varick
and Major David Salisbury Franks, these
two officers "late of General [Benedict]
Arnold's family having requested of me a
court of inquiry to ascertain the part they
acted relative to the transactions of
General Arnold."
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
WEIL, LOUIS; Letter, 1862, no place;
Manuscript
T o the Federal authorities, requesting
a pass in order to travel and operate within
the Southern lines. Appended is a letter of
reference, I 862.
(Gift of Frank L. Weil, New York,
N. Y.)
WELLES, TITUS;
Ten letters, I 8 2 3- I 8 3 2,
Boston, Mars.; Photostats
T h e executor of the estate of Abraham
Touro informs Stephen Gould and others
of Touro's last will. Included is a letter of
Welles to the General Assembly of the
State of Rhode Island on this subject.
(Gift of Rabbi David Jacobson, San
Antonio, Tex.)
WISE, ISAACMAYER;Five letters, I 888I 894, Cincinnati, Ohio; Photostats
Isaac Mayer Wise writes to his daughterin-law, Pauline Wise, about family problems, and about his struggle to create the
UnionofAmericanHebrew Congregations.
(Gift of Rabbi Selig Salkowitz.)
WRIGHT,JAMES;Eleven letters and extracts
from letters, I 764-1 766, Savannah, Ga.;
Typewritten copies
James Wright, governor of the province
of Georgia, refers in these letters, addressed to the Lords of Trade, in London,
to the silk production in Georgia, and to
Joseph Ottolenghe's activity. H e "avers
that the silk which went from hence made
in 1762 was the first and best in quality
that ever he made, or sent from the
province" (August 6, I 764). There are
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AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1 9 5 5
detailed descriptions of Ottolenghe's methods and conduct as superintendent of
the industry (December 4, I 764). "Mr.
Ottolenghe is apprehensive that some
persons have done him ill offices. Upon
the whole, I can only assure Your Lordships that I believe him to be a very honest
man" (September 25, 1766).
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
WRIGHT,JAMES;Letter, 1775, Savannah,
Ga.; Typewritten copy
T o the Earl of Dartmouth on the subject
of the Savannah rebels: "The conduct
of the people here is most infamous;
one [Mordecai] Sheftall, a Jew, is chairman of the Parochial Committee, as they
call themselves, and this fellow issues
orders to captains of vessels to depart the
King's port without landing any of their
cargoes legally imported. And fresh insults continue to be offered every day."
ELSAS,JACOB;Autobiography; Typewrittm
COPY
A native of Wuerttemberg, Germany,
Jacob Elsas came to the United States in
1839, when he was twenty-one years old.
H e began as a peddler in Philadelphia and
Cincinnati, entered a dry goods and clothing business in Portsmouth, Ohio, and
finally became a well-known and highly
respected businessman in Cincinnati, where
he was elected president of the Jewish
Hospital and vice-president of the Hebrew
Relief Association. A monument to the
memory of soldiers in the Jewish cemetery
was erected at his expense in 1867.
(Gift of Fred Roth, Cincinnati, Ohio.)
FRIENDLY,
HERBERTM.; Biography, written by Leonnrd Wilson, 1935; Typewritten
COPY
Herbert M. Friendly, who was born at
Corvallis, Oregon, graduated from Oregon
State College, and lived in Columbus,
Ohio. H e devoted most of his life to
improving the telephone as a means of
speedier communication. Friendly held
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
WRIGHT,JAMES; Letter, I 78 I , Savannah,
Ga.; Photostat and typewritten copy
James Wright, the governor of Georgia,
writes, apparently t o s i r George Germaine,
Secretary of State for America, in London,
about the affairs of Georgia, especially
about the great number of rebels and of
"disaffected persons remaining in this
province, guilty of harbouring, concealing,
aiding or assisting rebels." "I judged ~t
also necessary to prevent the Jews who
formerly resided here from returning or
others from coming to settle here. For
those people, my Lord, were found to a
man to have been violent rebels, and
persecutors of the King's loyal subjects."
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga., Colonial Records of Georgia, Vol. 38, Part 11,
pp. 484-488.)
many patents connected with his work,
but not until the end of his life did he
obtain some benefits from them. T h e Bell
Telephone Company was opposed to his
ideas to the very end of his lifetime, as it
felt that his inventions would be a threat
t o its established procedures. Some months
before he died, however, he obtained a cash
settlement, which gave him some freedom
to experiment without worries of a
financial nature. There is nothing at all in
the biography which even suggests that
Friendly was interested in Jewish affairs
or that he had anything to do with the
Jewish community, either during his youth
or in his later years.
(Gift of Mrs. Edward Rosenbaum and
Rabbi Hugo B. Schiff, Washington, D. C.)
GELLMAN,ABE; Autobiography; Typewritten copy
Abe Gellman, a Russian immigrant,
who spent his happy childhood in a "real
nice home," as his father was a cultured
and well-to-do businessman, vividly describes these green years of his life, his
ACQUISITIONS
education, the members of his family, the
revolutionary uprisings at this time (he
was born in I 88 z) ,his intention of emigrating to the United States, together with an
older brother, when he was only thirteen
years old, the grief of his parents, the
hardships of the long trip through Austria
and Germany, the weeks on the boat, his
arrival in Baltimore, homesick and bewildered, his experiences as a worker in a
tobacco factory, as a clerk in his uncle's
store in Petersburg, Va., as a businessman
in Chicago, and, later, in Petersburg again,
where he opened his own store, married,
and adopted a daughter. T h e autobiography
is full of good descriptive material, especially when he speaks of his travels,
the cities he visited, the people he met, his
Jewish background, his emotions, and the
difficulty which a thirteen-year-old child
experienced in getting adjusted t o a new
and strange environment.
(Gift of Louis Ginsberg, Petersburg,
Va.)
HARTAND JUDAHFAMILIES;Biographical
material, 17 24-1954; Photostats
Some biographical and genealogical
notes concerning these two families.
(Gift of Mrs. AlHn J. Hart, Montreal,
Canada.)
HELLER,MAX; Diary, I 89 z ; Manuscript
A travelogue of a European trip, dealing
with every phase of it in minute detail.
(Gift of Rabbi James G. Heller.)
IDELMAN,MAX; Biography, written b y
Jeanette Warshawsky Bemtein, 1954; Typewritten copy
"The Life of Max Idelman, Pioneer
Citizen of Wyoming, and of His Relatives
and Descendents" traces the Idelman
family fortunes (the family originally
came from Poland) from its origins in St.
Joseph, Mo., in the 1860's t o the establishment of an increasingly prosperous and
expanding liquor business and real estate
enterprise in Cheyenne, Wyoming. References are made t o Reform tendencies in
the late 19th century.
(Gift of Mrs. Jeanette Warshawsky
Bernstein, Cheyenne, Wyoming.)
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LAZARUS,EDGARM.; Excerpts from a
Diary, I 85 3 ; Photostat
A native of Charleston, S. C., eager t o
visit Europe, tells about his trip from
Charleston t o Washington, where he got
his passport, his voyage on a German boat,
and his arrival in Bremen.
(Gift of Thomas J. Tobias, Charleston.
s. C.)
LAZARUS,
EDGARM.; Travel diary, 1859;
Photostats
T h e narrative of a voyage t o Germany,
Italy, and Switzerland. An interesting
description of the architecture, churches,
libraries, museums, palaces, synagogues,
and theatres of these countries, and of
persons whom he met there.
(Gift of Thomas J. Tobias.)
MARKS, BERNHARD;Biograplzical notes,
I 88 I ; Photostats
This material relates t o the founder of
the Fresno Colony system, and the Central
California Colony, and to his activity as a
pioneer and leader. I t was printed in the
History of Fresno County ( I 88 I).
(Copy from the California State Library,
Sacramento, Calif.)
MORDECAI,
DAVIDHENRY;Travel diaries,
Vols. 1-111, I 856-1 858; Photostats
(Gift of Thomas J. Tobias.)
HORTENSIA;
Travel diary, I 859;
MORDECAI,
Photostats
A description of the cities which she
visited in Italy and France.
(Gift of Thomas J. Tobias.)
[MORDECAI,
RANDOLPH
J.?] Travel diary,
1857-1859; Photostats
This diary is interesting because the
writer tells of specimens of flora which
he found in Palestine.
(Gift of Thomas J. Tobias.)
MORSE, GODFREY (I 846-191 I) ; Short
Biography; Typewritten copy
Godfrey Morse, a Bavarian, came t o the
United States in 1848, studied law at
Harvard University, was admitted t o
practice before the United States Supreme
156
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 195 5
Court in 1879, and served as assistant
counsel of the United States of Alabama
Claims in 1882, 1883 and 1884. H e lived
in Boston, and was a Democrat and a
strong partisan, who was actively interested in public and Jewish affairs. H e
was a delegate to the Democratic National
Convention at Indianapolis (I 899), as well
as chairman of the Massachusetts State
Democratic Committee, and of the
Democratic City Committee of Boston.
(Gift of Julius C. Morse, Brookline.
Mass.)
MORSE, LEOPOLD (I 83 1-1 892) ; Short
Biography; Typewritten copy
This brother of Godfrey Morse, who
was a successful businessman in Boston,
and an independent and colorful character,
served as a Democrat in Congress from
1877 to 1891. H e was put on the Naval
Affairs Committee, and was a strong free
wool advocate who worked also for a
national bankruptcy law. In Boston he
founded the Home for Aged and Infirm
Hebrews, and was interested in many
clubs, organizations, and institutions. H e
came into friendly relations with President
Grover Cleveland, after whose first election, in 1884, he was mentioned for the
post of Secretary of Naval Affairs.
(Gift of Julius C. Morse, Brookline,
Mass.)
Z
NEUSNER,JACOB;Biography; Typewrittin
COPY
This biogra hy of a Russian immigrant,
who came to tge United States in I 89 I and
lived and worked in Boston. was written
in Yiddish by Mrs. Eva ~ e u s n e r and
, was
translated into English by her daughter,
Ida Neusner Rosenbaum.
(Gift of Mrs. Ida Neusner Rosenbaum,
Miami, Fla.)
NEUSNER,SAM; Biography, written b y J.
Jacob Neumer, I 95 I ; Typewritten copy
Sam Neusner's son describes in his
story, "Sam Neusner and the Jewish
Ledger," the founding of this AngloJewish newspaper in 1929, its early
struggles, and thedifficulties which Neusner
as publisher encountered in making the
Ledger a paying proposition. T h e Ledger,
which serves New England's communities,
championed several local, national, and
international Jewish causes.
(Gift of J. Jacob Neusner, Hartford,
Conn.)
Biography, 195 I ;
OETTINGER,ABRAHAM;
Typewritten copy
T h e narrative of a German immigrant
who left his country in I 846, at the age of
seventeen, became a peddler in upstate
New York, a jobber in New York City,
and, finally, the owner of a cigar store in
Butte, Montana. Always interested in
civic and Jewish communal affairs, Abraham Oettinger became a member of the
first B'nai B'rith lodge in New York, and
started a Sunday school in Butte, where
he himself taught, also conducting religious
services as the performer of weddings,
funeral services, circumcisions, and Bar
Mitzvahs.
(Told to Herbert Morris, a Hebrew
Union College student, by Mrs. Rebecca
Grant, of Wilmington, Delaware, in the
summer of I 95 I .)
SANGER,SAM (I 843-19 19) ; Biography;
Photostats
This biography consists of articles,
letters, messages of sympathy, resolutions,
and a "story of his career," compiled by
Sam Sanger's children after his death.
They reveal the rise t o wealth and success
of a German schoolteacher and ordained
rabbi who emigrated to the United States
in 1866. At first he had taught in a Hebrew
school in Cincinnati, then in a German
Hebrew school in Philadelphia, and finally
he went to Waco, Texas, where he built
his own business into one of the largest
department stores of the Southwest. H e
wasa pioneer merchant of sterling integrity,
an idealistic philanthropist, and a faithful
Jew.
(Gift of Mrs. Alexander H . Sanger,
Dallas, Tex.)
SCHERCK,ISAAC;Diary, I 867 ; Photostats
T h e long journey home, after the Civil
War, to New Orleans is recorded by a
Confederate major. Isaac Scherckdescribes
conditions after the war, the sentiments of
the people toward the emancipated Negro,
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'57
Southwest, especially in Texas and Kansas.
After serving in the army from 1898 to
1903, he settled in California, married, and
went into the insurance business. H e
wrote his autobiography at the age of
M.; Ercerpts from a diary, eighty-five.
SEGAL,CHARLES
Included are two radio broadcasts about
1949-1952, Brooklyn, N. Y.; T y p e w r i ~ t e n
copy; Restricted
Seligsberger's life and work, recorded in
1948; and five letters (1946-rg48), written
A discussion on the Palestine situation
with Dr. Ralph J. Bunche in 1950. Segal's by him to a Miss Hammer and a Judge
meeting with President Harry S. Truman, Bishop, telling them the most important
together with Mordecai Namir, secretary- details of his past.
(Gift of Dr. Ludwig Seligsberger,
general of the Histadrut, and Joseph
Schlossberg, general chairman of the Wilmington, Delaware.)
National Committee for Labor Israel, in
STERNE,ANSELM;" A Sketch of M y A m y
1952, and their discussions on Israel. "Mr.
Truman lauded the laws of Moses which Life. From 1861 to 186f." Typewritten copy
Living in West Point, Georgia, and a
are adhered to by Jews and Gentiles and
form a basis for our civilization," and member of the West Point Guards when
talked about the Bible, "a wonderful book Georgia seceded from the Union, Anselm
Sterne joined Company D of the Fourth
in which you can find every point of view."
(Gift of Charles M. Segal, Brooklyn, Georgia Volunteers, and ~articipatedin
some of the battles of the Civil War. H e
N. Y.)
was captured during the battle of Fisher's
SELIGSBERGER,
SIGMUND (I 863-1949) ; Hill, which was fought on September 2 2 ,
Autobiography; Manuscripts
but was paroled as a nurse to the ConBorn in Bavaria, the son of a school- federate wounded until the war ended.
Some notes are added by his son, M. H.
teacher, Sigmund Seligsberger left Germany in 1880, went first to the Middle Sterne, of Birmingham, Alabama.
West, where he worked as a clerk in a
(Gift of M. H. Sterne, Birmingham,
store, and then turned to ranching in the Ala.)
and their loyalty to the South. H e mentions
also many Southern Jews of that time.
(Gift of Henry J. Scherck, St. Louis,
Mo.)
ABRAHAM,CHAPMAN;Inlrtntory, I 78 3,
Montreal, Canada; Photostat
"Inventory of sundries the goods and
chattels of the late Chapman Abrams."
(Copy from the Municipal Records,
Old Court House, Montreal, Canada.)
BALTIMORE
DISTRICTGRANDLODGE,NO.
5, I.O.B.B.; Act of Incorporation, 1888,
Baltimore, M d . ; Photostat
(Copy from the Hall of Records,
Annapolis, Md.)
BALTIMORE
GERMANHEBREWCHARITY
SOCIETY;Act of Incorporation, I 8 39, Baltimore, M d . ; Photostat
(Copy from the Hall of Records,
Annapolis, Md.)
BALTIMORE
HARSINAIVEREINSOCIETY;
Act of Incorporation, I 844, Baltimore, M d . ;
Photostat
(Copy from the Hall of Records,
Annapolis, Md.)
BALTIMORE
HEBREWAND ENGLISHBENEBALTIMORE
FELLSPOINTHEBREWFRIEND- VOLENT ACADEMICAL
ASSOCIATION;
Act
SHIP CONGREGATION;
Act of Incorporation of Incorporation, 184 I , Baltimore, M d . ;
and Amtndments, I 847-1 872, Baltimore, Photostat
M d . ; Photostat
(Copy from the Hall of Records,
'
(Copies from the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Md.)
Annapolis, Md.)
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1 9 5 5
BALTIMORE
HEBREWCONGREGATION;
Act
of Incorporation, I 830; Baltimore, M d . ;
Photostat
(Copy from the Hall of Records,
Annapolis, Md.)
Certificateof Incorporation, 1924, N e w York,
N e w York; Typewritten copy
(Gift ofthe Central Council of Orthodox
Rabbis.)
COHEN,DAVIDDEL MONTE;DAVIDDE
BALTIMORE
HEBREWLOVEAND FRIEND- PAS LOPEZ;JACOBDE CRASTOLOPEZ;
SHIP BENEFICIAL
SOCIETY;
Act of IT~COT~OT-JACOB
D'OLIVEROLOPEZ;
ABRAHAMMINIS;
ation, I 844, Baltimore, M d . ; Photostat
ABRAHAM
MONTESANTO
NUNEZ;DANIEL
(Copy from the Hall of Records, RIBIERONUNEZ;
ISAACHENRIQUEZNUNEZ;
MOSESRIBIERO
NUNEZ;SAMUEL
RIBIERO
Annapolis, Md.)
NUNEZ;AND BENJAMIN
SHEFTALL;
Deeds,
BALTIMORE
UNITED
HEBREW
BENEVOLENTI 73 3, no place; Photostats
SOCIETY;Act of Incorporatio?~, 1834 and
Allotment deeds for lots in Savannah,Ga.
I 845. Baltimore, M d . ; Photostat
(Copies from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
(Copy from the Hall of Records,
Annapolis, Md.)
&HEN, ISIDORE;Three d o m m t s , 1862I 87 I , N e w Orleans, La.; Manuscripts
BERLACK,
ABRAHAM
S.; Discharge papers,
Passes issued by the government of the
I 9 2 9 , St. Augustine, Florida; Manuscript
United States provost marshal's office to
Statement of service by the Military travel from New Orleans to New York
Department of the State of Florida.
under oath not to give aid or information
(Gift of Mrs. Lena P. Steinberg- "to the so-called Confederate GovernElfenbaum, New Orleans, La.)
ment," 1862.
A statement of membership in the
BISSEL,RICHARD;
Sworn statement, I 77 5, "Royal Arch Masons," I 87 I.
no place; Typewritten copy
.(Gift of Mrs. Harold B. Cohen, Buffalo,
Deposition of the captain of the ship N. Y., and Rabbi Joseph L. Fink.)
"Clarissa" before Anthony Stokes, chief
MYERS;Sworn statement,
justice of Georgia, concerning Mordecai COHEN,SAMUEL
Sheftall.
I 74 I , no place; Photostat
The statement of a negro concerning
(Copy from the State Department of
Samuel M. Cohon during the negro
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
uprising.
BLOCK,HYMAN;Certificate, I 85 I, Perry(Copy from the New York State
ville, Mo.; Manuscript
Library.)
(Gift of Mrs. Myrtle Zellner, Los
Angeles, Calif.)
COMMON
HOUSEOF ASSEMBLY,
.Georgia;
Resolution, I 780, no place; Photostat
Ajidavit, I 749,
BOSOMWORTH,
ABRAHAM;
The rebels, among them Mordecai
no place; Typewritten copy
Sheftall, chairman of the rebel Parochial
Concerning Abraham Minis.
Committee, are disqualified from holding
(Copy from the State Department of any office or place of honor, trust, or ~ r o f i t
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
in Georgia, are forbidden to vote or to be
chosen, and have to deliver up their arms.
BUSH,DAVID;Appointment, 1803, Louis- The justices of the peace are required to
ville, Ga.; Photostat
make diligent search and inquiry after all
His appointment as major of the Bucks persons who may be in their respective
districts, and may commit any suspected
County Militia.
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collec- person to the nearest common goal (jail).
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
tion.)
CONGREGATION
BENE ISRAEL,Cincinnati,
I59
ACQUISITIONS
Ohio; Act of Incorporation and Amendment,
I 8 30 and I 847; Photostat
(Printed.)
CONGREGATION
BETH ISRAEL, Macon,
Georgia; Act of Incorporation, I 859;
Photostat
(Gift of Rabbi Newton J. Friedman,
Macon, Ga.)
CONGREGATION
B'NAI ISRAEL, Monroe,
Louisiana; Act of Incorporation, 1868;
Photostat
(Copy from the Inventory of the Church
and Synagogue Archives of Louisiana,
Department of Archives, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, La.)
CONGREGATIONMIKVE
ISRAEL,
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania; Three indentures, I 808-1 8 r 1 ;
Photostats
(Copy from Congregation Mikve Israel,
Philadelphia, Pa.)
CONGREGATION
MIKVEISRAEL,Savannah,
Georgia; Charter of Incorpomtion, I 790;
Resolution, I 843, Augusta, Ga.; Photostats
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
,
MONTEFIORE,Las Vegas,
CONGREGATION
N e w Mexico; Act of Incorporation and
documents, 1866; Photostats
(Gift of Rabbi Milton Taichert, Las
Vegas, N. Mex.)
CONGREGATION
SONS OF ISRAEL,Natchitoches, Louisiana; Act of Incorporation,
I 87 I ; Photostat
(Copy from the Department of Archives,
Louisiana State University.)
CONGREGATION
TEMPLE
ISRAEL, Gary,
Indiana; Articles of Incorporation and
Certz$cate of Incorporation, I 9 1o ; Photostats
(Gift of Rabbi Carl I. Miller, Gary,
Ind.)
CONNECTICUT
STATEASSEMBLY;Resolution, I 780, no place; Photostat
Concerning a petition of Hyman Jacob
Boghragh of Salisbury, Conn.
(Copy from the Connecticut Archives,
Connecticut State Library.)
GOMEZ, MORDECAI;Power of attorney,
I 7 18, no place; Photostat
T o Jacob Gornez.
(Copy from the Registrar's Office,
Bridgetown, Barbados, W e s t Indies.) .
GRATZ COLLEGE; Memorandum, 1928,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostat .
Memorandum of an agreement between
the Board of Trustees of Gratz College
acting for Congregation Mikve Israel and
the Hebrew Education Society, Philad$$t~f
Bernard Frankel.)
GRATZCOLLEGE
AND MIKVEISRAEL
CONFour memoranda, 1893-1 95 1,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostats
Minutes and reports based upon an
examination of original documents which
concern the relationship between Gratz
College and Mikve Israel Congregation,
Philadelphia.
(Gift of Bernard Frankel.)
GREGATION;
GRATZ,HYMAN;Deed, 1856, Philadelphia,
Pa.; Photostat
A deed executed between Hyrnan Gratz
and the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities.
O n the last page of the deed there is a
provision that the principal of the trust
fund is to be paid to Congregation Mikve
Israel, of Philadelphia, "for the education
of Jews residing in the City and County
of Philadelphia."
(Gift of the Hebrew Education Society,
Philadelphia, Pa.)
GRATZ,MICHAEL;Accounts, I 773, no place;
Photostats
(Copies from the Library Company of
Philadelphia, Pa.)
HART, AARON; Claim, 1776, no place;
Photostat
A claim for losses during the American
invasion of Canada in 1775.
(Copy from the Hart Papers, Skrninaire
du Saint Joseph, Three Rivers, Canada.).
ISAACS,J ~ S H U ACertificate,
;
1796, State of
N e w York; Manuscript
I 60
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY,
Record of satisfaction and payment of a
mortgage held by Lambert Suydam and
Jeremiah Van der Bilt against Joshua
Isaacs and his wife Brandely Isaacs
(Brandala Isaacs) .
(Purchased from the Philadelphia Autograph Co.)
ISAACS,SAMUEL;Sworn afidavit, I 78 I.
N e w York, N . Y . ; Photostat
O n the political activities of a certain
Samuel Hake.
(Copy from the William L. Clements
Library, Ann Arbor, Mich.)
ISRAEL,JUDITH;Order of the Court, 1754,
Baltimore, M d . ; Photostat
T h e Court ordered "that Judith Israel
who lives in Baltimore County and summoned as an evidence in a cause depending
in this Court between Morris Roberts plt.
[plaintiff] and Richard Smith defendant
be allowed for four days itinerant charges
agreeable to act of Assembly."
(Copy from the Hall of Records, Liber
H., Fol. 303,,Annapolis, Md.)
LEVI, MOSES; Account, 1698, no place;
Photostat
Twenty-three rolls of tobacco "for
presents to the Indians."
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
LEVI, NATHAN; Grant, 1757, no place;
Typewritten copy
A grant for a lot of land in the town of
Hardwicke, Georgia.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
LEVY,ASSER;Contract, 1662, Fort Orange
[ N e w York] , Dutch; Photostat
A contract with a man called Sanders.
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
LEVY, ELEAZAR; Certificates, letters of
administration, testimonies, warrants, 17631767, Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada;
English and French; Photostats
Concerning some court cases of Eleazar
Levy.
1955
(Copies from the William L. Clements
Library .)
LEVY, ISAAC; Sworn declaration, 1740,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostat
Included is a letter, written by Isaac
Levy to Judah Israel.
(Copy from the Supreme Judicial Court,
Boston, Mass.)
LOPEZ,JOSEPH;Administration accounts and
bond, I 774-1 804, County of Worcester,
Mass.; Photostats
Concerning the estate of Aaron Lopez.
(Copies from the Register of Probate,
Worcester, Mass.)
LOPEZ, JOSEPH; Certificate, I 795, County
of Worcester, Mars.; Photostats
A certificate of the Probate Office of
the County of Worcester that Joseph
Lopez, administrator of the estate of
Aaron Lopez, has made a complete settlement of Aaron Lopez' estate.
(Copy from the Register of Probate,
Worcester, Mass.)
LOPEZ,JOSEPH;EIewcn receipts, 1795-1 804,
Boston, Mars.; Photostats
Certificates of creditors that they received from Joseph Lopez a certain sum
of money.
(Copies from the Register of Probate,
Worcester, Mass.)
LYON, ENOCH;Certificate, I 78 z, no place;
Typewritten copy
A certificate of Enoch Lyon, quartermaster of the Continental Army, that he
received 2 2 1 bushels of oats from Caleb
Smith at Yorktown, Va.
(Copy from the Circuit Court,
Northampton County, Va., and Rabbi
Malcolm H. Stern, Norfolk, Va.)
LYON, SAMUEL; Grant, 1759, no place;
Typewritten copy (Excerpt)
A grant for fifty acres of land at
Skidoway and the Parish of Christ Church
(Savannah, Ga.)
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
ACQUISITIONS
MARKS,LEVI; Grant, 1760, no place;
Typewritten copy (Excerpt)
A grant .for a town lot in Savannah,
Ga., and fifty acres of land.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
MARQUES,
RACHELL;Warrant, 1707, N e w
York, N . Y . ; Photostat
A warrant to appraise the goods of
Rachel1Marques, widow ofIsaacRodriguez
Marques.
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
MENDELSOHN,
SIGMUND;Five contracts,
1865-1869, Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostats
Terms of employment with Guggenheim, Dreifuss and Company.
(Gift of Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman,
New Orleans, La.)
MINIS,ABIGAIL;Seven grants, 1757-1758,
no place; Typewrittm copies (Excerpts)
Grants for 1,850 acres of land in the
district of Sapola and the town of Savannah, Ga.
(Copies from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
Letter of attorney, I 7 39,
MINIS,ABRAHAM;
Savannah, Ga.; Typewritten copy (Excerpt)
From Abraham Minis to Simpson Levy
of London.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
MINIS, ESTHER;Grant, 1763, no place;
Typewritten copy (Excerpt)
A grant for a town lot and fifty acres
of land in Savannah, Ga.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
161
finer, and Edward Somerville, of London,
merchant.
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
MYERS,SAMUEL;Deed, 1796, Petersburg,
Y a . ; Typewritten copy
A certificate that Samuel Myers purchased and manumitted a mulatto woman.
(Copy from the Hustings Court Deed
Book, Vol. 2, p. 520, Petersburg, Va.)
NAHAR,
ABRAHAM
AND DANIEL;A s d a v i t ,
1704, no place; Photostat
Christopher Ronsby and Stephen Jamain
of the city of New York declare that they
are well acquainted with Daniel Nahar of
the island of Jamaica, deceased, and his
brother Abraham, living in Jamaica, too.
(Copy from the New York State
Library .)
OTTOLENGHE,
JOSEPH;TWOgrants, I 765,
no place; Typewritten copies (Excerpts)
Grants for land in the district of Savannah, and in Christ Church Parish.
(Copies from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
receipts, I 777, N e w
SALOMON,
HAYM;TWO
York, N . Y.; Photostats
(Copies from the Receipt Book of
Thomas Witter, 1759-1786, the New
York Historical Society.)
SALOMON,
HAYM;Indenture, 179I , N e w
York, N . Y . ; Photostat
Concerning the debts of the late Haym
Salomon.
(Copy from the New York Historical
Society.)
MORDECAI,SAMUEL; Indenture, r 82 3,
Petersburg, v a . ; Typewritten copy
(Copy from the Hustings Court Deed
Book, Vol. 7, p. 176, Petersburg, Va.)
SARZEDAS,
ABRAHAM;Grant, I 757, no
place; Typewritten copy (Excerpt)
A grant for a lot of land in the town of
Hardwicke, Ga.
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
MOSES,ISAAC;Indenture, 1758, Londun,
England; Photostat
Indenture between Isaac Moses, of
Hanover, Germany, gold and silver re-
SCHLOSS,
JACOBA.; Civil W a r discharge
papers, 1861, Georgetown, D . C.; Manuscripts
(Gift of E. Schloss, Chicago, Ill.)
I62
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY,
SHEFTALL,BENJAMIN;Deed, I 7 58, Savannah, Ga.; Photostat
(Copy from the B. H . ~ e v ) Collection.)
;
SHEFTALL,LEVI; Receipt, 177 5, Savannah,
Ga.; Typewritten copy (Excerpt)
Received from James Wright "Thirty
Four pounds Sterling in full of my account
for beef supplyed the Indians."
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga., Colonial Records of Georgia, Vol. 38, Part 11,
p. 108.)
SHEFTALL, MOSES; Appointment, I 8 I 7,
State of Georgia; Photostat
T h e appointment of Moses Sheftall as
one of the justices of the Inferior Court
of the County of Chatham.
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
SHEFTALL,SHEFTALL;Accounts, I 77 8 and
I 780, no place; Photostats
Accounts of salt pork delivered by
Sheftall Sheftall.
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
SHEFTALL,SHEFTALL;Declaration, I 780,
St. Johns, Antigua, West Indies; Photostat
Sheftall Sheftall gives his "Parole of
Honour" that he will quit the island of
Antigua, and that, immediately upon his
arrival in N e w York, he will surrender to
the governor or commander in chief of that
place.
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
SHEFTALL, SHEFTALL; Receipt, I 783,
Charleston, S. C.; Photostat
A receipt for 345 barrels o f flour delivered by Sheftall Sheftall.
(Copy from the B. H . Levy Collection.)
1955
Sworn statements of witnesses about
the uprising in Georgia and the Jewish
rebels who were opposed to the British
rule, among them Mordecai Sheftall, the
chairman of the rebel committee of Christ
Church Parish. This body "since formed
under the name of a parochial committee,
headed by on [one] Mordecai Sheftall of
Savannah, a person professing the Jewish
religion, and having one or more members
of the same persuasion, particularly Philip
Minis of Savannah, several of the members
of which last mentioned committee are
persons of little or no visible property,
which committee have assumed a power
to themselves of regulating all the concerns of the Parish" (in Sir James Wright's
letter to the Earl of Dartmouth, September
26, 1775).
(Copy from the State Department of
Archives and History, Atlanta, Ga.)
SOLOMON,SAMUEL;Receipts, I 808-1 8 I 6,
St. Louis, Mo., French; Typewritten copies
(Copies from the Missouri Historical
Society, St. Louis, Mo.)
SOLOMONS,
LEVY; Ajidavit, 1776, Montreal, Canada; Photostat
An affidavit by Levy Solomons that he
saw Colonel Allen in irons.
(Copy from the Washington Papers,
Library of Congress.)
VALENTINE, SIMON; Indenture, I 699,
Charlestoum, S. C.; Photostat
T h e document shows that Simon Valentine was probably the first Jew to own
land in Charleston, S. C.
(Copy from the Historical Commission
of South Carolina, Columbia, South
Carolina.)
WATTERS,
ABRAHAM;Documents,
SIMSON, SAMPSON;Indenture, I 766, no
place; Photostat
"Between Frederick Phillips of the one
part and John Stearndall and Sampson
Simson of the other part."
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
I 8 521879, English and Spanish; Photostats
T h e collection of Abraham Watters
contains many lodge documents, and legal
papers ( I 856-1 87 I) pertaining to Watters'
claim against the Republic of Mexico.
(Gift of Leon Watters.)
SMITH, ROBERT, AND OTHERS; Sworn
deposition, I 77 5, no place; Typewritten copy
WEIL,ISAAC;Documents, 1878-1880, N e w
York, N . Y.; Manuscripts
ACQUISITIONS
Relating to Isaac Weil's medical
studies and practice.
(Gift of Frank L. Weil, New York,
N. y.)
WEIXELBAUM,
LOUIS;Ccrtijicates, I 87 II 889 ; Manuscripts
AVILLA,ABRAHAM;
Naturalization certijicatc, 1697, Charlestown, S. C.; Photostat
(Copy from the Historical Commission
of South Carolina.)
1 ~ 3
Teacher's certificate, Ironton, Ohio,
1871. Certificate of appointment as a
member of the Board of Elections, Springfield, Ohio, 1889.
(Gift of Rabbi Norman H. Diamond,
Springfield, Ohio.)
LEVY,JACOBL., AND SARAHG. MARKS;
Marriage certijicatc, I 839, New Orleans,
La.; Photostat
( ~ i f of
t Charles B. Levy, Englewood
Cliffs, N, J.)
COHN, JACOB,AND BERTHAPECARE;
Marriage contract, 1842, Charleston, S. C., MENDELSOHN,
SIGMUND,
AND ISABELLA
WEILMAN;
Marriage ccrtijicate, 188I , New
Aramaic and English; Photostat
(Gift of Rabbi Samuel H. Baron, Jack- Orleans, La.; Photostat
(Gift of Rabbi Julian B. Feibelman.)
son Heights, Long Island, N. y.)
GOMEZ,LUIS (LEWISMOSESGOMEZ);
Dcnization patcnt, I 705, London, England,
English and Latin; Photostat
Granted to Luis Gomez by Anne,
Queen of Great Britain. Included is a
detailed description of the document.
(Copy from the New York State
Library and the American Jewish Historical Society.)
OTTENHEIMER,
ABRAHAM;Conjrmation
certijicate, I 882, Little Rock, Ark.; Manuscript
(Gift of L. A. Ottenheimer, East
Chicago, Ind.)
CINCINNATI,
OHIO;List of Interred of the
Chestnut Street Cemetery, 195 I ; Typewrittcn copy
(Compiled by R. D. Friedman and the
American Jewish Archives.)
and Deaths of the Levy Family, 1746-1858;
Photostats
Written into the Bible of Aaron Levy,
Sr.
(Gift of Miss Miriam Levy, Philadelphia, Pa.)
OTTENHEIMER,
MINNIE;Cmffirmation certijicate, 1889, Little Rock, Ark.; Manuscript
(Gift of L. A. Ottenheimer, East
KAHN, DAVID,AND BABETTEMAIER; Chicago, Ind.)
Marriage contract, I 829, Alzey, Germany,
German; Photostat
VALENTINE,
SIMON;Naturalization ccr(Gift of Herbert M. Meyer, Detroit, tijicate, 1697, Charleston, S. C.; Photostat
(Copy from the Historical Commission
Mich.)
of South Carolina.)
LEVY, AARON;Naturalization certijicate,
1803. Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostat
Birth ccrtijicate, I 824,
WEIL, LIEBMANN;
(Gift of Miss Miriam Levy, Phila- Stcinfurth, Germany, German; Manuscript
(Gift of Frank L. Weil.)
delphia, Pa.)
Records of Births, Marriages,
LEVY
FAMILY;
AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY, 1 9 5 5
164
LYONS- LAZARUS
- LEVY- HOHEN- MARKSFAMILIES;Records of
Births, Marriages, and Deaths, I 777-1 869,
Baltimore, Md.; Lancaster, Pa.; Philadelphia,
Pa.; Richmond, Va.; Surinam, West Indies;
Photostats
(Copies from the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.)
RICHMOND,
VIRGINIA;Marriage Records
of Congregation Beth Shalome, I 856-1 880,
Hebrew; Photostats
This book was in the possession of
Gustavus J. Ezekiel, whose late father,
Herbert T. Ezekiel, was one of the few
remaining members of that congregation
at the time of the merger with Beth
Ahabah (1898).
(Gift of Saul Viener, Richmond,
MARYLAND
- PENNSYLVANIA
- WEST
VIRGINIA;Circumcision Book, I 839-1 870, Va.)
Yiddish; Photostats
TRENTON,
NEW JERSEY;A Demographic
Written by David Herrman.
(Gift of Rabbi Bernard J. Bamberger, Study of the Jewish Population of Trenton,
New York, N. Y.)
1949, by Sophia M . Robinson; Typewrttten copy
(Gift of the Jewish Federation of
NATCHEZ,
MISSISSIPPI;
Records of the First
Trenton, N. J.)
Jewish Cemetery; Photostats
(Copies from the Department of
WERTHEIMER,
EMANUEL;
Family Records
Archives and History, Jackson, Miss.)
of Births and Marriages. I 826-1 870, Sun
PHILADELPHIA,
PENNSYLVANIA;
Circum- Francisco, Calif., English and Hebrew;
cision Book of Congregatwn Mikve Israel, Photostats
(Gift of Herman Blum, Frankford,
I 770-1 779, Hebrew; Photostats
Pa .)
Written by Barnard Jacobs.
(Gift of Congregation Mikve Israel,
Philadelphia, Pa.)
FELS
ABRAHAM,
CHAPMAN;
Last will and testament, 1783, Montredl, Canada; Photostat
(Copy from the Municipal Records,
Old Court House, Montreal, Canada.)
LEVY,AARON;TWOdrafts of wills, 1843,
Philadelphia, Pa.; Photostats
(Copies from the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania.)
COHEN,ROBERT;Last will, 1835, Petersburg, Va.; Typewritten copy
"Whereas I as one of the children and
heirs of Captain Jacob Cohen dec'd am
entitled to one third part of the claim due
either from the United States of America
or the Commonwealth of Virginia or both
to the heirs of the said Capt. Jacob Cohen
dec'd which claim is now undetermined
and in a state of prosecution, on account
of the Revolutionary services of the said
Captain Jacob Cohen deceased. . ."
(Copy from the Hustings Court Deed
Book, Vol. 3, p. 168, Petersburg, Va.)
LOPEZ, DAVID;Last will and testament,
I 797, Boston, Mass.; Photostat
(Copy from the Register of Probate
Court, Boston, Mass.)
.
ROBINSON,
ISAAC;Last will, I 89 I , Petersburg, Va.; Printed
(Published in T h e Semi-weekly Record,
Petersburg, Va.)
SHEFTALL,
BENJAMIN;Last will, 1784,
Savannah, Ga.; Photostat
(Copy from the B. H. Levy Collection.)
THESTORYOF ARKANSAS
JEWRY,I 8361953, b y Sumson A . Shain; Typescript,
Photostats
(Gift of Rabbi Samson A. Shain, Hot
Springs, Ark.)
(Copies from the Department of
Archives, Louisiana State University.)
SURVEYOF HISTORICALRECORDSOF
CONGREGATION
AGUDATH
ACHIM,SHREVEPORT,LA., I 890-1939; Photostats
(Copies from the Department of
THESAGAOF CONGREGATION
EMANU-EL,
SANFRANCISCO,
CALIF.,I 850-1950; Type- Archives, Louisiana State University.)
script
b y Abraham
(Gift of Edgar M. Kahn, San Francisco, THEJEWS OF MARYLAND,
Shustennan; Typescript, Photostats
Calif.)
(Gift of Rabbi Abraham Shusterman,
THE COLORADO
JEWISH COMMUNITY,Baltimore, Md.)
I 859-195 3, b y C . E . Hillel Kauvar; TypeIN BOSTON,
by Solamon Schindler,
ISRAELITES
script, Photostars
1889, Republished with an Intmduction and
(Gift of Rabbi C. E. Hillel Kauvar,
Explanatory Nores b y J. Jacob Neusner;
Denver, Colo.)
Typescript
HISTORY
OF CONGREGATION
ORVESHALQM, (Gift of J. Jacob Neusner.)
ATLANTA,GA., 1906-1954, by Joseph
OF THE HISTORY
OF TEMPLE
HIGHLIGHTS
Cohen; Typescript
(Gift of Rabbi Joseph Cohen, Atlanta, BETH EL, DETROIT,I 850-1950; Mimeoeraahed
Ga .)
( ~ i f of
t Congregation Beth El, Detroit,
HISTORYOF TEMPLE
ISAIAH ISRAEL, Mich.)
CHICAGO,ILL. (UNITEDCONGREGATIONS
B'NAI SHOLOM,TEMPLE
ISRAEL,AND ONE HUNDREDYEARSOF MINNESOTA
ISAIAHTEMPLE),1852-1952; by Morton JEWISH HISTORY,I 850-195 3. Statement
delivered at thc Tercentenary Institute, Estes
M . Bennan; Typescript
(Gift of Rabbi Morton M. Berman, Park, Colo., June 2 I , 1953, b y W. Gunther
Plaut; Typescript, Photostat
Chicago, 111.)
(Gift of Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut, St.
SURVEYOF HISTORICALRECORDSOF Paul, Minn.)
CONGREGATION
B'NAI SHOLOM,BASTROP,
THEKANSASCITY EXPERIMENT
WITH
LA., 1877-1938; Photostats
(Copies from the Inventory of the REFORMJUDAISM.THEFIRST EIGHTY
B'NAIJEHUDAH,
Church and Synagogue Archives of YEARSOF CONGREGATION
Louisiana, Department of Archives, Loui- 1870-1950, b y Harry H . Mayer; Typesiana State University, Baton Rouge, script
(Gift of Rabbi Harry H. Mayer, New
Louisiana.)
York, N. Y.)
SURVEYOF HISTORICALRECORDSOF
TEMPLE
SINAI,LAKECHARLES,
LA., 1895- THEJEWSI N ST. LOUIS.Historical Sketch
by Isador B.~rsh;Typescript, Photostat
1940; Photostats
(Gift of Mrs. Myrtle Zellner, Los
(Copies from the Department of
Angeles, Calif.)
Archives, Louisiana State University.)
SURVEYOF HISTORICALRECORDSOF THEJEWS I N NEW JERSEY,1702-1953,
CONGREGATION
B'NAI ISRAEL,NATCHI- b y Joshua 0. Habennan; Typescript,
~ H E S LA.,
,
1900-1937; Photostats
Photostat
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AMERICAN
JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY,1955
(Gift of Rabbi Joshua 0. Haberman,
Trenton, N. J.)
JEWSIN SOUTHCAROLINA,
NORTHCARO1695-1950, b y Allan
LINA,AND VIRGINIA,
Tarshish; Typescript, Photostat
THE
STORY
OF BETHISRAEL
CONGREGATION (Gift of Rabbi Allan Tarshish, CharlesI N ATLANTIC
CITY, N. J., 1890-1951; ton, S. C.)
Typescript
(Gift of Beth Israel Congregation, EARLYJEWISHHISTORYOF THE BLACK
Atlantic City, N. J.)
HILLS (SOUTH DAKOTA),prepared b y
Blanche Colman; Typescript
HISTORYOF CONGREGATION
SHEARITH (Gift of Miss Blanche Colman, DeadISRAEL,NEW YORK.Address deli~.'eredb y wood, S. Dak.)
Captain N . Taylor Phillips, in 1927;
THEHISTORYOF THE JEWS OF WEST
Photostat
(Gift of Captain N. Taylor Phillips, VIRGINIA
(WESTVIRGINIA
JEWRY),I 840I 9 5 3. b y A braham I. Shinedling; TypeNew York, N. Y.)
script
(Gift of Rabbi Abraham I. Shinedling,
HISTORYOF THE JEWSOF UTICA,N. Y.,
Beckley, W. Va.)
r 847-1949; Typescript
(Gift of Rabbi Mordecai Podet.)
THEJEWISHHISTORY
OF WEIRTON,
W.
THESTORYOF OKLAHOMA
JEWRY,1864- VA.; cmpiled b y Nandor Marton; Type1953, b y Joseph Levenson; Typescript, script
(Gift of Rabbi Nandor Marton, WeirPhotostat
(Gift of Rabbi Joseph Levenson, Okla- ton, W . Va.)
homa City, Okla.)
THEGERMAN-JEWISH
CONGREGATION
AT
HISTORYOF THE JEWSOF THE PACIFIC MADISON,WISCONSIN,1850-1930, by
b y Raphael H. Levine and Nathan Berman; Typescript
NORTHWEST,
(Gift of Rabbi Joseph L. Baron, MilMichael Robinson; Typescript, Photostat
(Gift of Rabbi Raphael H. Levine. waukee, Wis.)
Seattle, Wash.)
BONDIFAMILY;
Genealogy; Manuscript
The genealogy of the Bondi, Eybeschiitz,
and Wise families, compiled by Isaac M.
Wise, grandson of Rabbi Isaac Mayer
Wise.
(Gift of Isaac M. Wise, Cincinnati,
Ohio.)
CONGREGATION
RODEPHSHALOM,Philadelphia, Pa.; Miscellaneuus items, r 858I 894; Photostats
Forms, notices of events, programs,
resolutions, and special services.
(Gift of Congregation Rodeph Shalom,
Philadelphia, Pa.)
EINHORN,DAVID; Sermons,
Manuscripts
I 855-1
856;
(Gift of the Hebrew Union College
Library.)
ETTING,REUBEN;
Receipt book, I 801-1 804,
Baltimore, M d . ; Photostats
(Copies from the Library of Congress.)
HEBREW
UNIONCOLLEGE
LIBRARY;Catalogue, r 878; Manuscript
Index Book, possibly the first register.
It contains the complete minutes of the
Hebrew Union Agricultural Society (originally Maccabees), I 882-1 894.
(Gift of the Hebrew Union College
Library, Cincinnati, Ohio.)
HENDRICKS,
URIAH; Leitcr-Book,
1759, N e w York, N . Y . ; Photostats
I 758-
ACQUISITIONS
(Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henry S.
Hendricks, New York, N. Y.)
ISAACKS,
JUDAHM.; Advertisement, 1800,
Newport, R. I.; Original
The advertisement appeared in The
Guardian of Liberty, Newport, R. I., on
Saturday, December 6, 1800 (Vol. I,
No. lo). Judah M. Isaacks informs the
public that he has undertaken the business
of a broker in all its various branches. H e
also lists a farm for sale.
(Copy from Don E. Burnett, East
Greenwich, R. I.)
ISAACS,
HANNAH;Court case, 1743, N e w
York, N. Y . ; Photostat
(Copy from the New York State
Library.)
KARPLES,
HENRY
MAURICE;
Court-martial,
1868, Santa Fe, N . Mex.; Microfilms
A record of the court-martial of Henry
Maurice Karples, Thirty-seventh United
States Infantry, tried by General CourtMartial at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on
February to, 1868, and sentenced "to be
cashiered the service."
(Copy from the National Archives.)
LONDONJEWS; List, 1658 or 1660;
Photostat
A list of "Jews resident in London
about 1658 or 1660. Gift of Dr. Charles
Chauncy to me E. M. da-Costa about
1765.''
(Copy from the British Museum,
London.)
MIELZINER,
MOSES;Collection of rare booktitles, Hebrew, English, German; Manuscript
(Gift of the Hebrew Union College
Library.)
GAZETTE;
Jewish material, 1768QUEBEC
I 79 3, Canada; Photostats
April 28, 1768, No. 174. Notice on
Lazarus David, of Montreal.
May 5, 1768, No. 175. Notice on
Lazarus David, who is desirous of paying
off all demands against him.
January 5, 1769, No. 2x0. Court case
of Lazarus David.
1 ~ 7
July 23, 1772, No. 394. Advertisement
of Samuel Judah, of Montreal.
October 17, 1776, No. 58 I. On Samuel
Judah.
December 19, 1776, No. 590. On
Lazarus David, concerning his estate.
September 9, 1779, No. 732. Advertisement concerning Uriah T. and Samuel
Judah.
August 3, 1780, No. 779. On Samuel
Judah.
April 24, 1783, No. 922. On Heineman
Pines, concerning the purchase of land.
November 20, 1783, No. 952. Advertisement of Uriah T. Judah.
December 28, 1783, No. 957. Advertisement of Lyon Jonas.
September 9, 1784, No. 992. On Samuel
Judah's estate.
January 20, 1785,NO. 1013. Concerning
Samuel Judah's creditors.
November 17, 1785, No. 1056. On
Phebe David's estate.
October 28, 1790, No. 1317. The
memorial of the merchants of Montreal
to Lord Guy Carleton (October 1.4,
1790)~ signed also by David Davld,
Samuel David, and Levy Solomons.
July 28, 1791,No. I 358. Advertisement
of J. Joseph concerning the running away
of a Negro girl.
July 19, 1792, NO. 1410. On Levy
Solomons' estate.
August 9, 1792,No. 1413. On J. Joseph.
February 2, 1793, No. 1482. Advertisement of David David.
May 23, 1793, No. 1455. On David
David.
Interesting material throwing light on
the history of the Canadian Jews and
their economic life in the latter part of the
eighteenth century.
(Copies from the Public Archives of
Canada, Ottawa, Canada.)
SALOMON,
HAYM; Gmealogical and biographical data; Photostats
(Compiled by Muriel Schaeffer Carter,
Galveston, Tex., 195I.)
SCHACHTEL,
HYMAN JUDAH; Sermons,
1949-195 3, Houston, Tex.; Typcwrittm
Cop'CS
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AMERICAN JEWISH ARCHIVES, JANUARY,
(Gift of Rabbi Hyman J. Schachtel,
Houston, Tex.)
195 5
Solomon, who complained before a justice
of the peace of having been assaulted and
beaten by a certain Joseph Leblond.
(Copies from the Missouri Historical
Society.)
SCHRODER,
WILLIAMJ.; Address, I 952,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Manuscript
(Gift of Dr. J. Victor Greenebau~n,
Cincinnati, Ohio.)
ZISKIND,SAMUELJ.; Problems of Urban
Reform in the Late Nineteenth Century
SOLOMON,
SAMUEL;Court case, 1808, St. America with Sptcial Reference to New
Louis, Mo.; Typewritten copies
York's Louer East Side, 1941; Microfilnz
(Copy from Yale University, New
Petitions, sworn statements, and resolutions concerning the court case of Samuel Haven, Conn.)