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Article: Letters from Jamaica, 1719-1725.(Part Three: New Documents for the Study of American Jewish History)
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- American Jewish History
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- September 1, 2003
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The letters transcribed here were written by Diego Luis Gonsales (Gonzales) and his son, Abraham Gonsales, both of Jamaica, to Nathan Simson of New York and London. Informative about many commercial matters, they underscore the importance of transatlantic ties for Jewish settlers in England's New-World colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Jews who settled in colonial America aspired to careers as merchants who participated in the international commerce that spanned the Atlantic basin. Such trade provided the economic basis for the small seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jewish communities that developed in New York, Savannah, Philadelphia, ...
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