Document; Franks, Moses (1718-1789); London, United Kingdom; Québec, Canada; 1765 August 2
Description:
Manuscript draft contract between the British Treasury and Sir Samuel Fludyer, Adam Drummond and Moses Franks for provisioning British troops in Québec as suggested by General Thomas Gage. Signed by Fludyer, Drummond, and Franks. Docketed in manuscript "proposal."
Personal Name:
Franks, Moses (1718-1789)
Date:
1765-08-02
Language:
English
Rights:
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Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Document; Franks, Moses (1718-1789); New York, New York, United States; 1765 January 23
Description:
Manuscript letter from British general Thomas Gage to Thomas Whatley. The letter discusses the difficulty of supplying provisions to British troops in North America. He praises the work of the mercantile consortium of Sir Samuel Fludyer, Adam Drummond and Moses Franks.
Personal Name:
Franks, Moses (1718-1789)
Date:
1765-01-23
Language:
English
Rights:
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Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Manuscript mortgage note for 6,300 livres from Louis Herbin at Montreal to Gershom Levy. The note has been endorsed by Levy to Aaron Hart and has several docketed notes in English on the reverse dated March 25, 1763 noting that only 200 pounds in New York currency had been received by Hart on the note. Apollos Morris, a justice of the peace at Trois-Rivières, records that Hart swore his oath to this effect "on the old testament( being of the Jewish persuasion)."
Personal Name:
Levy, Gershon; Hart, Aaron
Date:
1762-01-04
Language:
French; English
Rights:
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Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Document; Solomons, Ezekiel; St-Martin, Adhemar; Morison, Charles; Mackinaw City, Michigan, United States; 1801 August 20
Description:
Two documents related to Ezekiel Solomons (1760-180?) and the slave trade in the early northwest. The first document (7 pp.) is an appointment from James Reid the prothonotary Michilimackinac, to Dr. David Mitchell, Ezekiel Solomons, Joseph Laframboise, and Isidore Lacroix authorizing them to serve on a commission to take depositions related to questions of property ownership. This document also includes five pages of questions to be posed by the commissioners. The second document (also 7 pp.) consists of the responses in French to these questions by Adhemar St-Martin and Charles Morison both of Michilimackinac. Both men’s answers relate to the trade in enslaved people in what are now Michigan and Ontario.
Personal Name:
Solomons, Ezekiel; St-Martin, Adhemar; Morison, Charles
Date:
1801-08-20
Language:
French; English
Rights:
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Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Document; De Lucena, Abraham Haim; De Lucena, Rachel; New York, New York, United States; 1726 March 24
Description:
Manuscript inventory of the estate of Abraham de Lucena, a New York City Jewish merchant and minister of Shearithi Israel. Signed by William Burnet, Robert Lurting, and Rachel de Lucena. The document notes that Rachel de Lucena "being of the Hebrew Nation was duly sworn upon the Five Books of Moses." The inventory lists the deceased's property including enslaved people.
Personal Name:
De Lucena, Abraham Haim; De Lucena, Rachel
Date:
1726-03-24
Language:
English
Rights:
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Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Document; Gratz, Bernard, 1738-1801; Pennsylvania, United States; 1771
Description:
Manuscript survey of three tracts of land "lying on Raccoon Creek" in western Pennsylvania. One of the tracts is listed as belonging to Bernard Gratz. The survey was made on the order of Col. George Croghan (1718-1782).
Personal Name:
Gratz, Bernard, 1738-1801
Date:
1771
Language:
English
Rights:
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Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Manuscript fragment taken from a Hebrew almanac containing a note that Michael Gratz married Miriam Simon (the daughter of Joseph Simon, 1712-1804 and Rose Bunn (nee Myers Cohen), 1727-1796) in Lancaster, June 20, 1769.
Document; Carpenter, Henry; Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States; 1822 July 17
Description:
Manuscript survey of the Lancaster Jewish Burial Ground. Surveyed and signed by Henry Carpenter, 17 July 1822. Recites conveyance from Thomas Cookson & Wife to Isaac Nunes Recus and Joseph Simons on 3 February 1746 for the purposes of the "Hebrew Burying Ground." Provenance: Found tipped in to Rebecca Gratz's family Bible.
Personal Name:
Carpenter, Henry
Date:
1822-07-17
Language:
English
Rights:
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Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
Collection of documents from the Loeb family of Philadelphia. These include: (1) Two handwritten letters in German to Abraham Loeb at Ungstein, Germany dated 1864 (2) A carte-de-visite of a young boy labeled "Lederle, Durkehim" (3) A handwritten note dated 1861 (4) Partial translation of John Keats' Fairy Song into German dated 1899 (5) A manuscript letter from S. Kahn at Coblenz in German dated 1878 (6) A manuscript letter in German addressed to Abraham Loeb dated 1878 (7) Ludwig Loeb letterhead with handwritten list of brothers' and sisters' birthdays (8) A handwritten list of Loeb family birthdates (9) A letter from Jacob Loeb in Ungstein Germany mentioning his wife Madel Levi (10) A handwritten poem in German entitled "National-Farben" (11) German notes headed Ungstein November 1878 (12) Five pages of undated manuscript German verse.
Personal Name:
Loeb, Abraham; Loeb, Jacob
Date:
1861-1914
Language:
German; English; Yiddish
Rights:
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Collection:
Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)
