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Box JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 3

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"The Descendants of Jacob De Leon and Hannah Hendricks, June 1, 1955, Originally Compiled by Abbot Low Moffat" typescript (photocopy), undated

 Item — Box: JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 3, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection:

Born in Jamaica, Jacob De Leon married Hannah Hendricks of New York in 1789. The couple settled in South Carolina and had eight children. Twenty page typescript traces descendants of this family from the late 18th to mid-20th century. Family names include Levy, Moses, Cohen, Seixas, Adams, Salomon, Samuel, Forbes, Moise, Pollock, Kinstler, Moffat, Pelton, Robinson, Weinberg, Rosefield, and Moffat.

Dates: undated
Found in: Special Collections / "The Descendants of Jacob De Leon and Hannah Hendricks, June 1, 1955, Originally Compiled by Abbot Low Moffat" typescript (photocopy)

Civil War: 1861, The War Between the States, 1865, 1995

 Item — Box: JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 3, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection: This sheet of commemorative stamps honors the Monitor and the Virginia, Shiloh, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and sixteen individuals who were important in the Civil War: Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton, Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, David Farragut, Frederick Douglass, Raphael Semmes, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Stand Watie, Joseph E. Johnston, Winfield Hancock, Mary Chesnut, William T. Sherman, Phoebe Pember, and "Stonewall" Jackson. Details for each stamp appear on the back of the...
Dates: 1995
Found in: Special Collections / Civil War: 1861, The War Between the States, 1865

Israel family prayer book, approximately 1846-1917

 Item — Box: JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 3, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection:

The prayer book contains two back pages of Israel family births and deaths, from 1862 to 1870.

Dates: approximately 1846-1917
Found in: Special Collections / Israel family prayer book

Letter from Rev. Dr. and Mrs. David de Sola Pool to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Toporek, 1964

 Item — Box: JHC Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection Box 3, Folder: 1, Item: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection:

Letter; handwritten on letterhead: "The Rev. Dr. D. de Sola Pool/Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue/Shearith Israel/Founded 1654"; sent to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Toporek [Bernice] of Charleston, South Carolina; signed"David and Tamar de Sola Pool"; regarding a book the de Sola Pools sent the Toporeks; mention of a Kiddush cup the Toporeks gave the de Sola Pools and fond memories of a visit to Charleston, SC; best wishes sent to the Karesh family.

Dates: 1964
Found in: Special Collections / Letter from Rev. Dr. and Mrs. David de Sola Pool to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Toporek
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