Isaac Mendes Seixas b. 5 Sep 1708-1709 Lisbon, Portugal d. 3 Nov 1780 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island: Americans of Jewish Descent

1709 - 1780 (71 years)

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Name	Isaac Mendes Seixas [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
Alt. Birth	1707 [11]
	Lisbon
Born	5 Sep 1708-1709	Lisbon, Portugal [4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13]
Gender	Male
Emigration	1730
	To America via Barbados
Residence	Abt 1775	Newport, Newport, Rhode Island [14]
Residence	Abt 1776-1779	Stratford, Fairfield, Connecticut [14]
Alt. Death	1780 [11]
Name	Isaac Mendez Seixas [13]
Reference Number	405
_UID	DE84E4F1B8F44E199A361C60EEA1BA9776D2
Buried	1780	Colonial Jewish Burial Ground, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island [6]
	Address: Bellvue Avenue Newport, Rhode Island USA
Died	3 Nov 1780	Newport, Newport, Rhode Island [4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15]
Person ID	I405	aojd-demo
Last Modified	14 Nov 2011

Family Rachel Levy, b. 27 Feb 1719, London, Middlesex, England , d. 12 May 1797, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York (Age 78 years)

Married May 1740-1741 New York [5, 12, 13]

Children

	1. Abraham Seixas, b. Nov 1741, New York , d. Jun 1742 (Age ~ 0 years)
	2. Abigail Seixas, b. 17 Nov 1742, New York , d. 1 Sep 1819, Richmond, Henrico, Virginia (Age 76 years)
	3. Moses Mendes Seixas, b. 28 Mar 1744, New York , d. 29 Nov 1809, New York (Age 65 years)
	4. Hazan Gershom Mendes Seixas, b. 14 Jan 1746, New York , d. 2 Jul 1816, New York (Age 70 years)
	5. Benjamin Mendes Seixas, b. 17 Jan 1747, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island , d. 16 Aug 1817, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island (Age 70 years)
	6. Abraham Mendes Seixas, b. 14 Mar 1750, New York , d. 9 Apr 1799, Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States (Age 49 years)
	7. Grace Mendes Seixas, b. 24 Nov 1752, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York , d. 8 Nov 1831, New York, New York (Manhattan), New York (Age 78 years)
	8. Raphael Seixas, b. 1756, New York , d. Infancy - Age Seven Months

Last Modified 11 Nov 2011

Family ID F155 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

Isaac Mendes Seixas was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1708. He arrived in New York City in about 1730 and entered into business. He went with his family to Newport, Rhode Island, about 1765, and resided there until his death on 3 November 1780.

Sometime after his death, his widow Rachel (Levy) Seixas moved to New York City, where she died on 12 May 1797.

Source: Hannah London

Sources

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[S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 154 LEVY I (1), 263 SEIXAS (1) (Reliability: 3).
[S7] Adeline Moses Loeb & Carl M. Loeb, Kathy L. Plotkin, Margaret Loeb Kempner, etal (Reliability: 3).
[S3] AMLAJA, Judith E. Endelman, (unpublished manuscript), SECTION III, CH 5 PG 10 (Reliability: 3).
[S335] Newport Burials, Professor David Gradwohl (Reliability: 3).
[S334] Collections of the New York Historical Society, John Watts DePeyster, compiler, (New York: New -York Historical Society, 1905), PGE 231 (Reliability: 3).
[S32] Portraits Etched In Stone, Pool, David De Sola, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.), MEMBER OF THE SEIXAS FAMILY MENTIONED IN THESE RECORDS, PG. 347 (Reliability: 3).
[S59] Green-Aryeh Family Tree, EMAIL 6 AUG 2010 ARYEH GREEN TO DAVID M. KLEIMAN (Reliability: 3).
[S634] Green-Aryeh Family Tree, EMAIL 6 AUG 2010 ARYEH GREEN TO DAVID M. KLEIMAN (Reliability: 3).
[S111] Miller, Evelyn.
[S4] FAJF-Stern, Rabbi Malcolm Stern, (3rd edition updated and revised. n.c.: Genealogical Publishing Company for the American Jewish Archives, 1991.), PG. 263 SEIXAS (1) (Reliability: 3).
[S165] Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.), CARDOZO, DANIEL HENRY, JR.: FILED 9 FEB 1929, ACCEPTED 8 MAR 1929. NAT. # 48504 (Reliability: 3).
[S337] Seixas Family Papers, American Jewish Archives, (http://findingaids.cjh.org/?fnm=SeixasFamily&pnm=AJHS) (Reliability: 3).
[S336] Touro Synagogue Interments List, Touro Synagogue, (Fax from Touro Synagogue, 23 July 1996), PG. 1 (Reliability: 3).

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