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Lawe, John (1779-1846) the son of Rachel Franks of Montreal and Capt. George Lawe. A fur trader with his uncle Jacob Franks he was recorded in Yrk. He died in Green Bay. See John Law Papers, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Correspondence.

Solomons, Ezekiel, (d.c. 1804, probably at New York).

Photocopies and typescipts of documents from the Bayliss Public Library (Samuel Abbot's Record Book) and the Register at St. Ignace (copies of James Gruet's Notorial Acts) etc.

Correspondence with William L. Clements Library University of Michigan, repository of the Notorial Instrument evidencing the purchase of the Solomons/Levy house, 1863.

David David and Company

George Benjamin Papers

George Benjamin/Thomas George Joans. Joans, and Englishman who arrived in New Orleans about 1830, was editor and proprieter of the Mercantile Advertiser, and married Isabella the daughter of Levi Jacobs on 5 May 1832. He left New Orleans by March 1834. Benjamin, and Englishman who was later founder of the Belleville Intelligencer, arrived in New Orleans about 1830, and married Isabella, the daughter of Lipman Jacobs 5 Febrary, 1832. He left New Orleans and arrived in York, U.C. by the end of 1833.

George Benjamin/Thomas George Joans. Joans, and Englishman who arrived in New Orleans about 1830, was editor and proprieter of the Mercantile Advertiser, and married Isabella the daughter of Levi Jacobs on 5 May 1832. He left New Orleans by March 1834. Benjamin, and Englishman who was later founder of the Belleville Intelligencer, arrived in New Orleans about 1830, and married Isabella, the daughter of Lipman Jacobs 5 Febrary, 1832. He left New Orleans and arrived in York, U.C. by the end of 1833.

George Benjamin/Thomas George Joans. Joans, and Englishman who arrived in New Orleans about 1830, was editor and proprieter of the Mercantile Advertiser, and married Isabella the daughter of Levi Jacobs on 5 May 1832. He left New Orleans by March 1834. Benjamin, and Englishman who was later founder of the Belleville Intelligencer, arrived in New Orleans about 1830, and married Isabella, the daughter of Lipman Jacobs 5 Febrary, 1832. He left New Orleans and arrived in York, U.C. by the end of 1833.

George Benjamin/Thomas George Joans. Joans, and Englishman who arrived in New Orleans about 1830, was editor and proprieter of the Mercantile Advertiser, and married Isabella the daughter of Levi Jacobs on 5 May 1832. He left New Orleans by March 1834. Benjamin, and Englishman who was later founder of the Belleville Intelligencer, arrived in New Orleans about 1830, and married Isabella, the daughter of Lipman Jacobs 5 Febrary, 1832. He left New Orleans and arrived in York, U.C. by the end of 1833.

Hastings County Records -- 1850s. Benjamin was Warden of Hastings County.

George Benajamin, Orange Lodges

Benjamin Land. Title documents of lands owned by Benjamin in Canada West, including searches, copies of abstracts, instruments and plans.

Speeches and Articles (S&J Godfrey)

Notes for Speech to the Twelfth Annual International Summer Seminar International on Jewish Genealogy hosted by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada, Toronto, June 28-30, 1993.

Berstein, Henry (in Montreal 1830s).

David, Lazarus (1734-1776)& Phoebe(1736-1786/7) and family.

David, Samuel (1766-1822).

Franks, Abraham (1721-1797) in Quebec 1760s, Montreal by 1771, (brother of John Franks).

Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: General Research.

Hart, Herman Fisher, son of Henry Hart (brother of Aaron Hart).

Hays Family -- Solomon Hays d.1788, Barracks Hays, Andrew Hays

Hazen, Moses, (1733-1803) probably not Jewish.

Jacobs, Samuel: Miscellaneous

Jacob Papers Hebrew Letters. Two letters dating from 1775-6 from vol.3 of the Jacobs papers are in an untranslatable form of Yiddish.

Abraham Judah (d.1784)& family: Judah was in Montreal with his family by 1780. His daughter Dorthea ("Dolly")(1747-1827) who had married Aaron Hart, was in Three Rivers by 1768.

Samuel Judah (1725-1789) was the oldest son of Abraham.

Thomas Judah

Lazarus, Simon in Berthier L.C., 1793-7. His niece m. Ezekiel Hart, 1794.

Levy, Alexander in Quebec 1832

Myers, Moses. S&M Myers Letterbook 1785-1787 (copy from American Jewish Archives).

Nathan, Moses, auctioneer, d.Montreal 1804. His widow, Elizabeth Lyons Nathan became Lower Canada's first licensed women auctioneer in 1808. See Elizabeth Lyons notarial wills.

Pines, Moses Joseph, a member of the Montreal Hebrew Congregation died on 2 December 1779. His Hebrew name was Moshe Joseph bar Phineas Avraham bar Avraham bar Joseph Hacohen.

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Correspondence in Lawe Papers -- (2 of 2)

Lower Canada - Abolition of State Oaths

Province of Canada

Instructions to Governors - O.S.

Election to Public Office - Ezekiel Hart elections

Jews Appointed to Canadian Juries

Judicial Appointments

Barbados

The Constitutions in America

Norfolk, Virginia

Maryland

Pennsylvania

South Carolina

Simon Valentine (Valentijn) Vander-Wilden

Kimber CSSN 1834

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British State Oaths Legislation; 18th Century

McCord Museum Papers

Catholic [Emmancipation]

MASONS

Unfiled Photocopies from National Archives of Canada and Public Archives of Ontario

"The Examiner," Toronto, July 27th, 1842.

"The Victoria Gazette," Victoria, Vancouver Island, June 25, 1859.

"The Montreal Witness," October 16, 1873.

Letter from Henry J. Noad, Quebec, to Michael Samuel, Miramachi, regarding loss of cargo with the sinking of the schooner "Eclipse"

Action on anti-Semitic incidents in Toronto

Pamphlets from the Goel Tzedec congregation, University Avenue, Toronto

Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity

Engravings of Oliver Cromwell, King George III, the Duke of Cumberland, and the Battle of Waterloo

A sett of quadrilles / Chs. F. Hausman

Montreal herald

Calling card for Charles Bradlaugh

Advertising trade cards

Plan of the town of William Henry

Caledonian mercury (Edinburgh)

The leader (Toronto)

Map to illustrate the climatology of the dominion of Canada / by Lorin Blodget

Lyons Family

Biographical Research Files

Cohen, Fredrick, artist, Woodstock U.C. prior to 1837.

Davids, Isaac, York, 1819.

Dessauer, Louis Woolf, Daguerrotype Artist, in Waterloo, Kitchener and Toronto from 1841. Appears in the THC Records in 1862. May have been the Captain Dessaur who died at Chancellorswille, 1864.

Hart, Moses, of Three Rivers(1768-1862)son of Aaron and Dorethea Hart. Attempts to own land in Upper Canada, 1797-1800.

Hart, Simeon and Harry of New Brunswick to Upper Canada, 1817.

Thomas Jacobs, Governor of HBC, 1696

Joseph, Gershom A. (1821-1893) of Montreal, student of Upper Canada College in Toronto 1836-1839.

Judah, Sarah married James Vickers of Toronto in St.James Anglican Church in 1838. John Manuel was a witness.

Charles Kohen

Koenig (King), Joseph and Charles, to Whitby, Canada West, 1863. Samuel King was Ontario's first Jewish lawyer.

Michaels, Levy (1723-1815) and Michaels, Myer (1760-1815) Montreal fur traders who spent time in the "Upper Country" [Upper Canada].

Moss, Sgt. Samuel, of the King's Royal Rangers was granted land beside Myers Solomon near Cornwall in 1797.

Rossin, Marcus, Samuel and Julius. M. Rossin & Bro. jewellers, est'd in Kingston U.C. in 1832, moved to York in 1843, built in Rossin House Hotel in 1855 (destroyed by fire 1862).

Toronto Hebrew Congregration (1858-1878) --Marriage Records (Typescript.

Dictionary of Canadian Biography - Article on Jacob Franks by SJG. Four(4)files containing correspondence, drafts, redrafts and copies of the final article and footnotes.

Franks, William (d. by 1850) second child of Jacob Franks and Therese La guere dit La Rose.

Lawe, John (1779-1846) the son of Rachel Franks of Montreal and Capt. George Lawe. A fur trader with his uncle Jacob Franks he was recorded in Yrk. He died in Green Bay. See John Law Papers, Wisconsin State Historical Society, Madison.

State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Correspondence.

Solomons, Ezekiel, (d.c. 1804, probably at New York).

Solomons, Ezekiel, (d.c. 1804, probably at New York).

Photocopies and typescipts of documents from the Bayliss Public Library (Samuel Abbot's Record Book) and the Register at St. Ignace (copies of James Gruet's Notorial Acts) etc.

Correspondence with William L. Clements Library University of Michigan, repository of the Notorial Instrument evidencing the purchase of the Solomons/Levy house, 1863.

David David and Company

George Benjamin Papers

Hastings County Records -- 1850s. Benjamin was Warden of Hastings County.

George Benajamin, Orange Lodges

Benjamin Land. Title documents of lands owned by Benjamin in Canada West, including searches, copies of abstracts, instruments and plans.

Speeches and Articles (S&J Godfrey)

Notes for Speech to the Twelfth Annual International Summer Seminar International on Jewish Genealogy hosted by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada, Toronto, June 28-30, 1993.

Berstein, Henry (in Montreal 1830s).

David, Lazarus (1734-1776)& Phoebe(1736-1786/7) and family.

David, Samuel (1766-1822).

Franks, Abraham (1721-1797) in Quebec 1760s, Montreal by 1771, (brother of John Franks).

Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: General Research.

Hart, Herman Fisher, son of Henry Hart (brother of Aaron Hart).

Hays Family -- Solomon Hays d.1788, Barracks Hays, Andrew Hays