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| 51 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Nathan, Edgar Joshua III (I1164)
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| 52 | "Endenizened 12 Dec 1711, made a Freeman in New York 11 Nov 1712" | Mendes, Benjamin (I1174)
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| 53 | "Endenizened 25 Sep 1752" | Bunn, Solomon Haim (I1490)
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| 54 | "endenizened 3 May 1774" | Seixas, Daniel Brandon (I1379)
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| 55 | "Endenizened N.Y. Jun/Jul 1740" | Myers-Cohen, Abraham (I1484)
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| 56 | "Established revolutionary ancestor (DAR)" Two plaques memorialize Haym Salomon, patriot and dedicated Jew. Born in Poland in 1740, he left Poland at the time of the Partition of 1772. He traveled in Europe for several years before immigrating to New York City around 1775. On the continent, he acquired mastery of European languages, currencies, and finance. In New York, he opened a brokerage and commission merchant's business. He was jailed in New York by the British as a spy and for participating in other revolutionary activities of the Sons of Liberty. Salomon escaped to Philadelphia with his family. There he joined fellow Jews who had fled the British occupation. He established himself as a broker, selling currencies and notes at a discount. Robert Morris, Superintendent of the Office of Finance appointed Haym Salomon as official broker. From 1781 until1784, in this capacity, Salomon converted bills of exchange and foreign government notes into spendable cash at a low rate of interest for the highest obtainable price. The money was used to meet the urgent needs of the army, navy, and government Solomon was known as "The Good Jew." In addition to his commitment to American Independence, Salomon devoted himself to Jewish affairs. A trustee of Congregation Mikveh Israel, he was the largest contributor to its first building, dedicated in 1782. The gravesite of Haym Salomon is unmarked. He is commemorated by a marble tablet on the east wall, installed by his great-grandson, William Salomon. A granite memorial is set inside the gate of the cemetery. Haym Solomon Lodge 663 of Brith Sholom contributed it and financed extensive repairs to the cemetery. Haym Salomon died in 1785 at the age of 45. He left assets which barely covered his debts. The following obituary was printed in the Independent Gazetteer: "Thursday, last, expired, after a lingering illness, Mr. Hyam Solomon, an eminent broker of this city, was a native of Poland, and of the Hebrew nation. He was remarkable for his skill and integrity in his profession, and for his generous and humane deportment. His remains were yesterday deposited in the burial ground of the synagogue of this city." | Salomon, Haym (I2238)
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| 57 | "Established Revolutionary Ancestor" | Lazarus, Marks (I3883)
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| 58 | "Established Revolutionary Ancestor" | Hart, Michael (I1886)
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| 59 | "Esther went to Philadelphia to live with her brothers Samson and Joseph when her mother died." | Levy, Esther (I407)
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| 60 | "Esther went to Philadelphia to live with her brothers Samson and Joseph when her mother died." | Levy, Esther (I407)
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| 61 | "Freeman in New York 7 Feb 1769" - goldsmith | Etting, Benjamin (I1729)
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| 62 | "Freeman, 12 May 1723/24" | Myers, Solomon (I1231)
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| 63 | "Freemen made and Registered in the Mayorality of Paul Richard Esq. in this Third Year." Judah is listed as Merchant, P | Mears, Judah (I371)
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| 64 | "Gary is a doll, and made Carolyn's life very happy". Per Edna Rosenbaum letter to SS dated 6/2/99. | Hamacher, Gary (I5092)
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| 65 | "Goldsmith and Silversmith" He was made freeman of New York on 29 Apr 1745/6. "Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York" 2002-02-24 until 2002-05-26 Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles, CA, USA United States of America An exhibition of the work of Myer Myers (1723-1795), one of the most accomplished craftsmen working in pre-industrial America, will be on view at the Skirball Cultural Center from February 24 to May 26, 2002. Organized by Yale University Art Gallery, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York features 104 silver and gold objects created by Myers as well as close to 50 other objects that help place him in the context of the tumultuous political, economic, social, and religious life of New York in the second half of the eighteenth century. Upon its opening at Yale in September, the exhibition was acclaimed by the New York Times as the first large museum exhibition on Myers in nearly 50 years . . . offer[ing] voluminous insights into Myers's silver work and his life. While Myers is not nearly as well known as Paul Revere, who worked in Boston, Myers, like Revere, is counted among a select group of highly respected merchant-artisans of the time. His work is found in major museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and Harvard University Art Galleries. The exhibition was organized by David L. Barquist, associate curator of American decorative arts at Yale, who also wrote the catalogue. Following its showing at the Skirball, Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York will travel to the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum in Delaware from June 20 to September 13, 2002. The Skirball presentation includes a series of related events including a lecture by Dr. Barquist on Friday, February 22, at 1:00 p.m. Myers was the most productive silversmith working in New York during the late Colonial period and his ritual and secular silver is the largest body of extant work by a Jewish silversmith from anywhere in Europe or America prior to the nineteenth century. He became the dominant figure in a large, well-established community of silversmiths that included native craftsmen of Dutch, Huguenot, and English ancestry, as well as immigrants from Europe. His renown as an artisan came from his ability to execute superb custom order work for the wealthiest patrons. His New York workshop was, in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, one of the few that supplied such labor-intensive, richly ornamented forms as candlesticks, pierced bread baskets, covered jugs, and cruet stands, and alone in the production of such specialized work as Torah finials. Myers?s output was not, however, confined to these style-conscious forms. From the mid-1750s his shop generated a steady income by satisfying the demand for more modest forms of hollowware and flatware from a larger, less affluent clientele. Myers's success as a silversmith, Dr. Barquist points out, was the result of his talents not only as a craftsman but also as an entrepreneur who marshaled the skills of other craftsmen and specialists. In addition to the objects created by Myers, the exhibition features silver and gold objects by some of his contemporaries as well as painted portraits of his patrons, manuscripts, books, maps, and other works on paper. A major component of the exhibition explores Myers's stylistic development and the ways his patrons, represented by their portraits, influenced the forms and styles of his work. Another section surveys the Jewish communities of New York, Philadelphia, and Newport, Rhode Island, to which Myers was connected through the kinship network of his own family. The organization of the silversmith?s trade in eighteenth-century New York is examined in a another section. Here such issues as apprenticeship, the specialist craftsmen working in Myers's shop, his competitors, and commissions versus ready sale are considered and objects made in England and America are compared. Myer Myers was born in New York City in 1723, the son of Solomon and Judith Myers. The family lived one block away from Shearith Israel's synagogue on Mill Street, where Solomon, and later his sons, were active members of the congregation and where many of the most useful documentary records of Myers's life can be found. After the traditional seven-year apprenticeship with a master silversmith, he registered as a Goldsmith in 1746, the first native Jew within the British Empire to establish himself as a working retail silversmith since the incorporation of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in 1327. Myers had set himself up as an independent maker by 1753, a time when the leading merchants in New York, where the British army in North America was headquartered, made fortunes supplying the soldiers during England's wars with Spain and France in the 1740s and, later, the Seven Years' War. An advantageous marriage to Elkaleh Myers Cohen, the daughter of a wealthy merchant in the transatlantic trade, and a partnership with Benjamin Halsted expanded Myers's connections and his business thrived. His patrons for the Rococo style objects he began producing in the mid-1750s included political, military, financial, and social leaders, among them the Reverend Samuel Johnson, a graduate of Yale (class of 1714) and the founding president of King's College, now Columbia University. Tories such as he were by no means Myers's only fashionable patrons; the Whig Livingston family, of enormous wealth and influence, also commissioned a large number of pieces and shaped the silversmith's style. During the late 1760s and the 1770s Myers created the magnificent Torah finials, or rimonim, four pairs of which are in the exhibition. Myers's Torah finials are unique examples of eighteenth-century American Jewish silver, writes Dr. Barquist. They are also among the most extraordinary precious-metal objects produced in Colonial America. It was in these years that Myers's most significant commissions came from Samuel Cornell, a successful West Indies merchant and landowner, and his wife Susannah Mabson. Among them were a dish ring and bottle stands that are the only extant Colonial American examples of these forms, as well as other rare examples of pierced silver in the Rococo style. The summer of 1776 brought Myers's activities as a silversmith and entrepreneur to an abrupt halt. George Washington had made New York his headquarters and British troops besieged the city. Myers and Joyce Mears, his second wife his first having died and six dependent children moved with other Jewish families to Norwalk, Connecticut, on the mistaken assumption that the enemy, as Samson Mears, Myers's brother-in-law observed, will have greater objects to attend to than this insignificant place. In July 1779 a British force attacked and burned the town leaving the residents homeless and Myers without his tools. The family settled in Stratford, Connecticut for the remainder of the Revolutionary War years and, despite his losses, it is evident from extant objects that Myers continued to work as a silversmith. The war has served historians as the point of demarcation between the Rococo of the Colonial period and the Neoclassical style of the new Republic and Myers's workshop adopted the new aesthetic. Though not as successful in business after the war, it is clear that his peers held him in high regard, electing him chairman of the newly formed Gold and Silver Smith?s Society in 1785. He remained a leader in the Jewish community and was active in the affairs of the Shearith Israel congregation until his death at the age of seventy-two in 1795. | Myers, Myer (I374)
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| 66 | "He enlisted in Captain Linton's Company in the battalion of Philadelphia Militia under Col. William Bradford, October 1778 and a few days later mustered into the service of the United States." "See Pennsylvania Associateors and Militia in the Revolution - Volume 1, page 682. | Phillips, Jonas (I2680)
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| 67 | "he had become a freeman of New York on 7 Nov 1752." | Levy, Joseph (I416)
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| 68 | "he had become a freeman of New York on 7 Nov 1752." | Levy, Joseph (I416)
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| 69 | "He met with financial reverses in London and was declared bankrupt in 1732." | Levy, Asher (I397)
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| 70 | "He met with financial reverses in London and was declared bankrupt in 1732." | Levy, Asher (I397)
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| 71 | "He was a New York merchant and part owner of the brig Prince Frederick." | Levy, Michael (I403)
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| 72 | "He was a New York merchant and part owner of the brig Prince Frederick." | Levy, Michael (I403)
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| 73 | "He was blind" ======================= Portraits Etched in Stone (de Sola Poole) says "He was the hapless blind son of Isaac A. Abrahams (bio 87) and his weak-eyed wife, Kitty Louzada Abrahams (bio 118)." Stern indicates Abraham Abrahams is the son of Isaac A. Abrahams and Catherine Polock. This makes Abraham Isaac Abrahams and Kitty Louzada grand-parents of Abraham Abrahams. ======================= | Abrahams, Abraham (I1498)
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| 74 | "He was educated for the Jewish ministry in London chiefly by the Rev. D.A. de Sola and Rabbi David Meldola. . . . one of the first to preach among his people in English. | Mendes, Rabbi Abraham Pereira (I3684)
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| 75 | "He was educated in Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, London, England .1 He was educated in Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Berkshire, Englan d.1 He fought in the Second World War, where he was wounded.2 He gained t he rank of Major in the service of the Coldstream Guards.2 He succeed ed to the title of 4th Baron Belper, of Belper, co. Derby [U.K., 185 6] on 20 March 1956." | Strutt, Honorable Major Alexander Ronald George (I766)
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| 76 | "Head of Liverpool Jewish Community" | Yates, Reverend Benjamin (I4099)
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| 77 | "in New York by 1727" | Louzada, Jacob (I1503)
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| 78 | "In NY 1708: Made a freeman 22 Feb 1713" | Hart, Moses (I428)
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| 79 | "In NY 1708: Made a freeman 22 Feb 1713" | Hart, Moses (I428)
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| 80 | "insane" | Abrahams, Hannah (I1527)
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| 81 | "insane" | Louzada, Jacob (I1506)
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| 82 | "Insane" | Cardozo, Judith N. (I1025)
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| 83 | "Isaac was a merchant in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia" Page 231.-I, ISAAC LEVY, of New York, do declare this to be my last will and testament. All my real estate of every kind and Denomination shall at my decease become the property of my son Asher and my daughter Esther, otherwise called Henrietta, as also my personal estate to both the same, " both borne of Elizabeth Pue," equally divided between them at the times they respectively become of age, on conditions hereafter mentioned. In case of the death of either my said son or daughter before aged twenty-one, I give my estate to the survivor, if both die before of age then to my brother, Samson Levy, and my sister, Rachel Seixas, wife of Isaac Seixas, equally. My will is that neither my son nor daughter shall marry or enter into matrimonial contract before the age of twenty-one years, but if either so do he or she shall have no share in my estate, but the share of he or she that doth marry or enter into matrimonial contract shall be given to the other that doth not marry contrary to my will; and if both marry or enter into matrimonial contract before twenty-one then I give my whole estate to my brother, Samson Levy, and my sister, Rachel Seixas. My executors are my said brother, Samson Levy, his son Moses, and my son Asher. Dated October 22, 1776. Witnesses, Walter Shee, Benja Condy, Edmund Nihell. The Register for Probate of Wills, Philadelphia. Certified November 8, 1785, that the above will was a true copy from the original filed in the office at Philadelphia. Administration on the above granted to Joshua Isaacs, of the City of New York, a creditor of Isaac Levy, formerly of the same place but late of tho City of Philadelphia, merchant, deceased, whereas the executors, Samson Levy, Moses Levy and Asher Levy are absent from this State, New York, November 16, 1785. | Levy, Isaac (I400)
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| 84 | "Isaac was a merchant in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia" Page 231.-I, ISAAC LEVY, of New York, do declare this to be my last will and testament. All my real estate of every kind and Denomination shall at my decease become the property of my son Asher and my daughter Esther, otherwise called Henrietta, as also my personal estate to both the same, " both borne of Elizabeth Pue," equally divided between them at the times they respectively become of age, on conditions hereafter mentioned. In case of the death of either my said son or daughter before aged twenty-one, I give my estate to the survivor, if both die before of age then to my brother, Samson Levy, and my sister, Rachel Seixas, wife of Isaac Seixas, equally. My will is that neither my son nor daughter shall marry or enter into matrimonial contract before the age of twenty-one years, but if either so do he or she shall have no share in my estate, but the share of he or she that doth marry or enter into matrimonial contract shall be given to the other that doth not marry contrary to my will; and if both marry or enter into matrimonial contract before twenty-one then I give my whole estate to my brother, Samson Levy, and my sister, Rachel Seixas. My executors are my said brother, Samson Levy, his son Moses, and my son Asher. Dated October 22, 1776. Witnesses, Walter Shee, Benja Condy, Edmund Nihell. The Register for Probate of Wills, Philadelphia. Certified November 8, 1785, that the above will was a true copy from the original filed in the office at Philadelphia. Administration on the above granted to Joshua Isaacs, of the City of New York, a creditor of Isaac Levy, formerly of the same place but late of tho City of Philadelphia, merchant, deceased, whereas the executors, Samson Levy, Moses Levy and Asher Levy are absent from this State, New York, November 16, 1785. | Levy, Isaac (I400)
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| 85 | "Jacob was a sucessful NY merchant" | Franks, Jacob (I396)
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| 86 | "Jacob was a sucessful NY merchant" | Franks, Jacob (I396)
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| 87 | "killed in the seige of Charleston" | Moses, Infant (I1562)
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| 88 | "killed with the Duke of Kent in a flying accident on active service" | Strutt, Honorable Michael (I765)
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| 89 | "landed in Philadelphia" | Israel, Abraham Eliezer (I3388)
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| 90 | "Last Jew of Newport" He left for New York on 5 Oct 1822. | Lopez, Moses "Duarte" (I2050)
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| 91 | "Lately in Havan, Capt. J. Mais Levy, late U. S. Florilla, Wilmington." | Levy, Judah Mears USN (I1751)
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| 92 | "Lieutenant David Sarzedas" | Sarzedas, Dr. David (I1986)
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| 93 | "London 1710-1778, Lancaster" "Endenizened Lancaster 25 Mar 1749" | Solomon, Joseph (I1494)
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| 94 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Primrose, Harry Ronald Neil (I769)
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| 95 | "Moved to Montgomery with his younger brother Alfred before the Civil War. Joseph became an attorney and was head of the Montgomery public school system at the time of his death." CASES ABGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE ^ ^ SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA, DURING DECEMBER TERM, 1877. JOHN \\V. A. SANFORD, SPECIAL REPOBTEE. VOL. LIX. MONTGOMERY, ALA. : PUBLISHED BY JOEL WHITE, 1879. ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by JOEL WHITE, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C. HUNTED BT H. r. SCRKWS, MONTGOMERY, ALA. OFFICERS OF THE COURT DURING THE TIME OF THESE DECISIONS. ROBERT C. BRICKELL, CHIEF JUSTICE, IluntsvilU, Ala. AMOS R. MANNING, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, Mobile, Ala. GEORGE W. STONE, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE, Montgomery, Ahi. JOHN W. A. SANFORD, ATTORNEY GENERAL, Montgomery, Ala. THOMA&J. RUTLEDGE, CLERK, Montgomery, Ala. JUNIUS M. RIGGS, MARSHAL, Montgomery, Ala. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO JOSEPH WINTHROP MOSES. AT a meeting of the Bar of the City of Montgomery, held at the court- house, on Friday, December 21st, 1877, on motion of Gen. J. T. Holtzclaw, Major Henry C. Semple was called to the chair, and Thomas H. Watts, Jr., was requested to act as secretary. The chairman having explained the object of the meeting, on motion of Capt. F. S. Ferguson, a committee, consisting of F. S. Ferguson, W. L. Bragg, J. T. Holtzclaw, Thomas G. Jones, and P. T. Sayre, was appointed to prepare resolutions expressive of the grief of the Bar, caused by the death of Joseph Winthrop Moses. The committee, through its chairman, reported the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopted, viz.: Resolved, That the members of the Bar of Montgomery have heard with deep sorrow of the death of their esteemed brother, Joseph Winthrop Moses, and by it have sustained a loss which is well-nigh irreparable. Resolved, That his character as a man and as a lawyer was above reproach ; his learning extensive and accurate ; his literary attainments varied and brilliant; and his conduct while living sueh as to command respect, win admiration, and attract affection; and that we will ever pre- serve the memory of his virtues and excellences as a precious legacy. Resolved, That, in his life, so true to every obligation, so pure in every act, so gentle in every sentiment, youth has a most beautiful example, and age has something to cause it to renew its trust in humanity. Resolved, That we deeply sympathize with the relatives of our deceased brother, and pray that God will have them in His merciful keeping. Resolved, That the Attorney-General present these resolutions to the Supreme Court, the Solicitor to the Circuit Court, and the chairman of the meeting to the United States Court, and request that they be entered on the minutes of those courts. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the city papers, and a copy of these resolutions be sent to the relatives of the deceased. Resolved, That the members of the Bar, as a body, attend the funeral of tllG HENRY C. SEMPLE, Chairman. THOS. H. WATTS, JR., Secretary. On the 4th day of February, 1878, the resolutions were presented to the- Supreme Court, by Attorney-General John W. A. Sanfofcd, who said : vi TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO May it please the Court : A short time ago, a long, black, slowly moving line crept through the streets of Montgomery and rested in the cemetery. It was the funeral pro- cession of Joseph Winthrop Moses. He died in the noon of manhood, but his physical conformation was so unimpaired by vice or disease that it seemed as if with him, life's morning sunlight was still upon .the hills, and its dew was on the flowers. He had lived in Alabama only a few years, but he had so impressed him- self on the people, that various societies and the city herself, were mourners at his grave. Feeling the common bereavement, the Bar of Montgomery adopted these resolutions. There are objects, both in nature and in art, which always challenge and always defy accurate description. Often the colors and shapes of the even- ing clouds are so gorgeous, and beautiful, and evanescent, that neither the poet nor the painter can convey an adequate idea of their brilliancy and beauty. There are strains of exquisite music, which echo forever through the halls of Memory, but which language can neithe'r describe nor pre- serve. So there are characters so rich in fine qualities, and so rare in their combination of them, that words utterly fail successfully to portray them. Such a character is the very fragrance of the soul itself, which the spirit may perceive, but which the brain can not analyze and the lips can only praise. Of this class was the character of Joseph Winthrop Moses. He was so endowed by nature ; so adorned by art ; so affluent in all noble traits ; so devoid of the greed of pelf and place which disgraces the times, and so free from those little, paltry aims of life that wriggle over the soul, dis- figuring and minimizing it, that he seemed to belong to another sphere, and, by some mistake, to have strayed among mankind. This is not the exag- gerated eulogy of too partial friendship, I knew him long and I knew him well. He was born, reared and educated in the city of Charleston. There he was surrounded by the best influences of a community abounding in all the powers that can refine the heart, and brighten the intellect, and elevate the character, and develop manhood. He availed himself to the uttermost limit of these advantages of education and enlightenment. It is not strange then that he should have graduated at the college with honor, or that he should have acquired those habits and tastes by which he was subsequently distin- guished. As soon as his collegiate course was terminated, he entered as a law- student the office of Mr. Petigru. Stimulated by the example and precepts of that illustrious lawyer, wit and scholar, he continued the pursuit of all knowledges, professional, scientific, literary and artistic. He was early con- vinced that eminence as an advocate could only be obtained through the broadest culture ; for he had learned that, with a few notable exceptions, the most renowned lawyers, from Cicero to Legare, had been as remarkable for their literary and philosophical pursuits as .they were for their profes- sional attainments. Consequently, not content with the literature of our tongue, to-day unsurpassed in its riches, he became proficient in other lan- guages. He was not only master of English (in which he possessed critical skill), but he knew also Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin, and French, and German, and Italian and Spanish. In some of these he conversed with fluency, and he read and translated all of them without difficulty. He was so gifted that these acquirements were easily made. Indeed, so thorough was his mental discipline that no intellectual exercise required labor, or was ever irksome to him. _ His versatility was as uncommon as the ease with which he accomplished his appointed tasks. He could compose with equal facility verses to the belle of a ball-room, or a poem in commemoration of the Confederate dead ; a lecture on humor, or a funeral oration ; a discourse upon art, or a brief in a law-suit; a constitution and charter for a literary club, or resolutions cele- brating the virtues of a deceased patriot ; an editorial on party politics, or a JOSEPH WINTHROP MOSES. vii report on the educational system of the city; a criticism of an opera, or a disquisition upon the Jews, their history and influence upon mankind. And he had this happiness : Whatever he did, whether written or spoken, in " prose or numerous verse," was done so thoroughly, gracefully and well, that he seemed born to do that alone. We are not surprised, therefore, that on his admission to the bar Mr. Petigru should have said, he had one of the brightest intellects he had ever known. His moral traits were no less noteworthy than his intellectual capabilities. He was a Hebrew by blood and in religion, and was superbly proud of his race, and zealously and humbly devoted to his faith ; and yet he so practised all the virtues inculcated by Christ, that I may say of him as Pope said of Garth : ''The best good Christian he, although he knew it not." His spirit was unstained it was scarcely darkened by the shadows of earth. He was altogether exempt from vices. He was unselfish, and generous, and chari- table, and so benevolent that he felt like the old Koman, who believed God had u made man many that they might aid, one another." He had an exalted ideal of life, and sympathized with all that is good, and pure and grand in human thought, or noble and heroic in human conduct. He was sincere and earnest and strong in his convictions, but temperate in his expression of them. He was ardent and constant in his friendship, but he rarely exhibited his feelings. He was calm and self-poised in all circum- stances. The vicissitudes of the world affected him but slightly. He "Was just of the quiet kind, Whose natures seldom vary : Like streams that keep a summer mind, Snow-hid in January." He had self-control and amiability to an unusual degree. Tranquillity was his normal condition. Anger never disturbed his equanimity. Indignation sometimes burned along his veins when injustice was done the poor and ignorant, and humble, and defenseless ; or when an act of signal depravity or atrocity fell under his observation. No violent passions, or ungovernable or barbarous impulses, ever swerved him from the behavior of a being entirely civilized. He never knew the ferocity of hatred, or bore the burden of an nnforgiven grudge, or felt the sting of a regretted meanness. Fidelity to friends and to principles ; truth- fulness in all things; frankness in advising when his advice was sought; courage and an aversion from causeless conflict; prudence in speech and in action ; a faultless sense of justice ; manliness ; robust gentleness, and knightly courtesy, were a few of his characteristics. Time will not permit me to enumerate all the qualities that made his char- acter so perfect, and himself so well beloved. We could reckon all the days of his life, not by the revolutions of the seasons, or the course of the sun, but by the circle and zodiac of his virtues, which have made him immortal. And yet he was modest, unobtrusive and apparently unconscious of his mani- fold powers. For his excellences stood in him so silently they seemed to hav6 stolen upon him without his knowledge. Verily, he was a gentleman, " take him all in all," of so many and such rare perfections that Sidney or even Lee, would have loved to call him friend. And " In these ears till hearing dies One set slow bell will seem to toll, The passing of as sweet a soul As ever looked with human eyes." For gentle as he was, the only pain or sorrow he ever caused his kindred, of the world, was when he died. If it be true, as a wise Emperor has said, that "a man is worth just so much as those things are worth about which he busies himself;" if the pos- session of uncommon talents and great qualities entitle a person to be con- viii TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO J. WIN. MOSES. sidered great, then our departed friend had surely a claim to such a rank ; but just as surely his humility would never have enforced it. It is fit that some record of the virtues of such a man should be kept and his memory saved from "the tooth of time and razure of oblivion." Therefore, I move that the resolutions may be spread on the minutes of the Court. The resolutions were then ordered by the Court to be spread upon its minutes. | Moses, Joseph Winthrop (I2)
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| 96 | "murdered in cool blod in this own house by a Spanish Traitor who lodged there one night as his intimate friend" | Lopez, Son (I2058)
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| 97 | "Nathan was a Philadelphia Merchant" | Levy, Nathan (I398)
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| 98 | "Nathan was a Philadelphia Merchant" | Levy, Nathan (I398)
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| 99 | "Neice of Mordcai Lyon" Her gravestone reads: Our Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother. RACHEL MOSES, Relict of the late Joseph Moses. Died May 20, 1860 in the 79th year of her age. A truly religious woman, a noble and devoted mother, a sincere friend. None knew her but to love her, None knew her but to praise her. May her soul rest in peace. | Lyon, Rachel (I1475)
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| 100 | "of Brightkaleraston, England" | Myers, Michael of Brightkaleraston, England (I339)
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