JewishGen Home Page

An affiliate of

The AJHS Manuscript Catalog

Cohen Family Papers

Type / Call #Personal / P-003Contains primarily correspondence and some business and official
papers of the Cohen Family of Baltimore and Richmond. Papers
center about the following members of the family: Jacob I. Cohen,
1784-1822, including two receipts of the same date of the firm of
Cohen & Isaacs to Mrs. Edmund Randolph, on the reverse of one of
which is a notation in Yiddish (1787), a promissory note of the
firm of Cohen & Isaacs of Richmond (1792), orders for merchandise
signed by Carter Braxton (1794) and (Edmund?) Randolph (1801) and
a letter of appointment for the office of inspector of the
Penitentiary signed by James Monroe, Governor of Virginia (1801);
Jacob I. Cohen, Jr., 1825-1850, including a patent for the
drawing of lotteries signed by John Quincy Adams and James Monroe
(1825), an acknowledgement of a lottery ticket purchase
containing a printed description of the various lotteries for
which Jacob I. Cohen, Jr. and Brothers sold tickets (1826), the
reputedly last extant letter of Charles Carroll of Carrollton
(1832) and several letters relating to his position as
Commissioner of Public Schools for the City of Baltimore (1834,
1837); Mendes I. Cohen, 1829-1874, including letters from
Mordecai Manuel Noah (1837, 1845), David Solomons of London, John
Wesley Davis (1845), and Benjamin F. Hallett (1848); Benjamin I.
Cohen, 1831-1842, including 2 letters appointing him Judge of
Elections in Baltimore (1840, 1842); and Joshua I. Cohen,
1823-1870, including letters from David Hoffman, John Pendleton
Kennedy (1847 and N.D.), Isaac Leeser, Gustavus A. Myers of
Richmond, Va. describing a visit to the home of Chief Justice
John Marshall (1836), William Ogden Niles, Mordecai Manuel Noah
and Rabbi Abraham Rice and correspondence relating to his
scientific and historical interests.
Years1787-1897
LocalityMD, Baltimore
NotesBaltimore, MD; Richmond, VA
Size119 items

All AJHS manuscript collections must be accessed in person on-site at the American Jewish Historical Society. For information on how to research the AJHS archival collections, essential information about their Reading Room and Regulations can be found at http://www.ajhs.org/reference/readingrooms.cfm.

The AJHS collections themselves are not available in any electronic form, on this website or elsewhere. The AJHS has been collecting this material for over 100 years, and preserves it in its archives in the original format, be it handwritten, typewritten, or printed. For more information on the AJHS' genealogical holdings see the article "Genealogical Resources at the American Jewish Historical Society".

Start a NEW Search?
Back to the JewishGen Home Page

Copyright ©1996, 2008, JewishGen®, Inc.
Web Author: Michael Tobias
Need Help? See the JewishGen Support Center.

JewishGen Home Page Edmond J. Safra Plaza | 36 Battery Place | New York, NY 10280
646.494.2972 | info@jewishgen.org | © 2024, JewishGen, Inc. All rights reserved.