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The AJHS Manuscript Catalog
Lopez, Aaron Papers |
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| Type / Call # | Personal / P-011 | Contains ca. 6800 manuscripts arranged chronologically by year for years 1752-1794. Approximately 100 are letters recieved or writen by Lopez, his partner and father-in-law Jacob Rodriguez Rivera, members of his family and company, and commercial agents pertaining to business activities and sailing orders for captains of various ships. Several also refer to personal matters and acquaintances, including a series of six letters from Silas Cooke of White Hall (Meddletown) R.I., to Aaron Lopez, asking his aid in returning a run-away slave (1776). The great majority of the collection consists of account records, bills of sale, orders, shipping agreements, lists of sailors on the various ships, repair records and cargo invoices. Of particular interest are a receipt for payment of a half-year's subscription to the "tzedakah" of Congregation Nefutzei Israel, Newport (1755) and several documents that reveal Lopez as a supplier of kosher meat and other religious articles to people in various parts of the colonies, Surinam, and Jamaica. Also included in this group are copies of sailing lists, documents pertaininbg to Lopez's naturalization which shed light upon the status of a Jew applying for citizenship in Massachussetts and a check to Lopez from United States government for a loan made during the Revolutionary War (1779). 684 typewriten and carbon copies of various Lopez papers and documents (originals are in the Newport Historical Society) have been added to the collection. | | Years | 1752-1794
| | Size | ca. 6800 items, 14 cartons |
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