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Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: "Inspector of Chimneys" for Quebec, Montreal and Three Rivers, 1768 (first Jew in a British country to be appointed to public office by Commission).

Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: Quebec Land 1761 ff.

Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: John Franks, Philadelphia pre 1749 and 1757-61.

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

Franks, David (-1792) in Montreal by 1770s, (brother of John Franks).

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

Davis, Mrs., Montreal, 1779.

Davis, Samuel, (b.c.1792) in Montreal by 1832, tobacco merchant.

Dr. James Davidson, Quebec, 1770s.

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

David, Samuel (1766-1822).

David, Eleazar (Lazarus) David, (1811-1887).

David, Isaac, (b.c.1808) in Montreal 1839.

Cohen Esdaile P., in Montreal by 1832.

David, David (1764-1824).

Berstein, Henry (in Montreal 1830s).

Cohen, Jacob R., in Montreal 1779.

Aaron, Isaac (in Montreal 1832).

Notes and Research for an address by Sheldon Godfrey, Chairman of Heritage Canada to the Rotary Club of Toronto, June 14th 1996 at the Royal York Hotel on "The Bicentennial of the Community Around Younge Street." In 1828, William Lyon Mackenzie described the population of the Town of York and surrounding country as "a mixed race, neither amalgamated in manners nor customs nor habits."

Notes and Research for an address by Sheldon Godfrey, Chairman of Heritage Canada to the Rotary Club of Toronto, June 14th 1996 at the Royal York Hotel on "The Bicentennial of the Community Around Younge Street." In 1828, William Lyon Mackenzie described the population of the Town of York and surrounding country as "a mixed race, neither amalgamated in manners nor customs nor habits."

Ascher, Gottschalk Isaac, (d.1891, in Montreal by 1842) and family.

Notes for and Transcipt (31pp) of Address by S&J. Godfrey on "The Development of Civil and Political Rights of [British] Colonial Jews before 1867" to the Canadian Jewish Historical Society at the Learned Societies Conference, Quebec, May 27/8, 1990.

Notes for and Transcipt (31pp) of Address by S&J. Godfrey on "The Development of Civil and Political Rights of [British] Colonial Jews before 1867" to the Canadian Jewish Historical Society at the Learned Societies Conference, Quebec, May 27/8, 1990.

Notes of Address by Sheldon Godfrey to the Conference of the Ontario Genealogical Society at the University of Toronto, May 27-30, 1993, on the subject "The Town of York--Who Else Was There?"

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.

Notes and research for article on "The King vs Moses Gomez and others: Opening the Prosecutor's file over 200 years later" by S&J Godfrey published in 'American Jewish History,' 1992.

David Spector, Hove England. Shared research project on the Jewish community of Brighton, England and the Cohen family.

Flyer soliciting subscriptions for "Who Was Who in Canadian Jewry, 1749-1840"

Papers of Sir Mackenzie Bowell (Queen's Univeristy Archives). Bowell, later Prime Minister of Canada, was raised by the Benjamin family and worked at the Intelligencer which he bought from Benjamin.

David Spector, Hove England. Shared research project on the Jewish community of Brighton, England and the Cohen family.

Speeches and Articles (S&J Godfrey)

Source institutions: Kingston Public Library, National Archives, Public Archives of Ontario.

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

Correspondence, George Benjamin/John A. Macdonald Letters. (1856-1864). Includes photocopies and typescripts of letters from all sources including those privately held. Typescripts and copies of letters to and from others.

Correspondence, George Benjamin/John A. Macdonald Letters. (1856-1864). Includes photocopies and typescripts of letters from all sources including those privately held. Typescripts and copies of letters to and from others.

Susannah Moodie. Moodie wrote "Richard Redpath a Tale" the main character of which is based on a hostile portrayal of George Benjamin. It was published by Richard Bentley in 1853 as part of 'Matrimonial Speculations'

Susannah Moodie. Moodie wrote "Richard Redpath a Tale" the main character of which is based on a hostile portrayal of George Benjamin. It was published by Richard Bentley in 1853 as part of 'Matrimonial Speculations'

Correspondence, George Benjamin/John A. Macdonald Letters. (1856-1864). Includes photocopies and typescripts of letters from all sources including those privately held. Typescripts and copies of letters to and from others.

Correspondence, George Benjamin/John A. Macdonald Letters. (1856-1864). Includes photocopies and typescripts of letters from all sources including those privately held. Typescripts and copies of letters to and from others.

Benjamin Contemporaries

George Benjamin, Judaism

George Benajamin, Orange Lodges

Benjamin, End of Career January 1862 - September 1864

Benjamin 1857-1862

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

Benjamin 1850-1857

Belleville -- 1840s

Belleville/Thurlow, 1830s

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.

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 General. Includes article in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Obituary, etc.

George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Emmanuel Hyman Benjamin (1832-1914)

George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Benjamin Family Records--Copies from Nancy Cooper

George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Nancy Benjamin Cooper (b.1927)

George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Hyam Lewis, Brighton (1769-1851)

George Benjamin - Ancestry

George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Henry Robert Cohen

Benjamin, George

Benjamin George, Collaterals and their descendants.

G. Benjamin

George Benjamin Papers

The Beaver Club

David David and Company

Drummond Island/St. Joseph's Island/Penetanguishene. The British Loyalists who inhabited Mackinac Island were obliged to leave by the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812. In 1815 they moved to Drummond Island which the British subsequently agreed, was in American territory. The British settlers left their new home in 1826 and reestablished themselves at Penetanguishene and St. Joseph Island.

Drummond Island/St. Joseph's Island/Penetanguishene. The British Loyalists who inhabited Mackinac Island were obliged to leave by the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812. In 1815 they moved to Drummond Island which the British subsequently agreed, was in American territory. The British settlers left their new home in 1826 and reestablished themselves at Penetanguishene and St. Joseph Island.

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

Correspondence with and copies of Documents form the Bayliss Public Library , Sauly St. Marie, Michigan.

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 Donald Helman, Archeologist at the excavation and reconstruction of the Solomons/Levy house, Fort Michilimackinac.

Mackinac Maps

Abraham, Chapman (c.1723-1783). Captured by the Indians at Sandwich, 1763. Copies of documents from other sources.

Solomons, Levy (d. 1792, Montreal). Solomons, Levy or Solomon Levy (1730-1792) was one of the five members of the Great Lakes fur trade syndicate that was disrupted by Pontiac's uprising in June 1763. The Solomons/Levy family.

Solomons, Levy (d. 1792, Montreal). Solomons, Levy or Solomon Levy (1730-1792) was one of the five members of the Great Lakes fur trade syndicate that was disrupted by Pontiac's uprising in June 1763. The Solomons/Levy family.

Terroux (Therousse), Jacques or James (c.1766-1792) was a son of Levy Solomons the fur trader and Lizette Loubiere (d. 31 Dec. 1772).

Solomons, Levy (d. 1792, Montreal). Solomons, Levy or Solomon Levy (1730-1792) was one of the five members of the Great Lakes fur trade syndicate that was disrupted by Pontiac's uprising in June 1763. The Solomons/Levy family.

Solomons, Levy (d. 1792, Montreal). Solomons, Levy or Solomon Levy (1730-1792) was one of the five members of the Great Lakes fur trade syndicate that was disrupted by Pontiac's uprising in June 1763. The Solomons/Levy family.

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Jonas, Lyon Montreal, 1798.

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.

Joseph, Henry (1775-1832) and family. Joseph, a nephew of Aaron Hart came to Berthier, Quebec with his brothers Judah and Abraham between 1778 and 1790.

Jacob Daughters. Photocopies of Correspondence between Samuel Jacobs and his daughters from the Jacob Papers.

Jacobs, John Levi, son of Samuel Jacobs was in Newark (Niagara-on-the-Lake) U.C. 1794-96.

Jacobs, Samuel., son of Samuel Jacobs

Jacobs, Samuel (d.St. Denis Quebec, 1786), General&Family. The Samuel Jacob Papers are in the National Archives as MG 19A Series 3.

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.

Jacobs, Samuel: Wills.

Hays Family -- Moses Judah Hays

Hyman, William (1807-1882) mayor of Cap Rosiers, Quebec., 1858-1882.

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

Henry, Elias, Montreal 1763-5.

Bernard S. Hart.

Hart, Theodore S., M.D., Three Rivers, 1810. Hart was unable to obtain his license as a physcian in Lower Canada notwithstanding several attempts.

Hart, Moses&Esther (Solomons), Quebec, 1768.

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

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

Hart, Moses (1768-1852).

Hart, Ezekiel (1770-1843).

Hart, Abraham, Albany, probably a brother of Aaron Hart.

Hart, Dorothea (nee Judah). See Will.

Hart, Aaron Ezekiel (1803-1857) son of Ezekiel Hart and Frances Lazarus.

Aaron Hart and Family.

Hart, Aaron (1724-1800, Three Rivers) in Quebec by 1761. See Aaron Hart Will.

(Franks), Rebecca Franks Kemble (1780-1839) daughter of John.

Franks, Moses (1718-1789)(brother of John Franks).

Franks, David Salusbury (b.Halifax 1751-d.Philadephia 1793), son ofj John.

Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: "Inspector of Chimneys" for Quebec, Montreal and Three Rivers, 1768 (first Jew in a British country to be appointed to public office by Commission).

Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: Quebec Land 1761 ff.

Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: John Franks, Philadelphia pre 1749 and 1757-61.

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

Franks, David (-1792) in Montreal by 1770s, (brother of John Franks).

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

Davis, Mrs., Montreal, 1779.

Davis, Samuel, (b.c.1792) in Montreal by 1832, tobacco merchant.

Dr. James Davidson, Quebec, 1770s.

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

David, Samuel (1766-1822).

David, Eleazar (Lazarus) David, (1811-1887).

David, Isaac, (b.c.1808) in Montreal 1839.

Cohen Esdaile P., in Montreal by 1832.

David, David (1764-1824).

Berstein, Henry (in Montreal 1830s).

Cohen, Jacob R., in Montreal 1779.

Aaron, Isaac (in Montreal 1832).

Ascher, Gottschalk Isaac, (d.1891, in Montreal by 1842) and family.

Notes for and Transcipt (31pp) of Address by S&J. Godfrey on "The Development of Civil and Political Rights of [British] Colonial Jews before 1867" to the Canadian Jewish Historical Society at the Learned Societies Conference, Quebec, May 27/8, 1990.

Notes of Address by Sheldon Godfrey to the Conference of the Ontario Genealogical Society at the University of Toronto, May 27-30, 1993, on the subject "The Town of York--Who Else Was There?"

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.

Notes and research for article on "The King vs Moses Gomez and others: Opening the Prosecutor's file over 200 years later" by S&J Godfrey published in 'American Jewish History,' 1992.

David Spector, Hove England. Shared research project on the Jewish community of Brighton, England and the Cohen family.

Flyer soliciting subscriptions for "Who Was Who in Canadian Jewry, 1749-1840"

Papers of Sir Mackenzie Bowell (Queen's Univeristy Archives). Bowell, later Prime Minister of Canada, was raised by the Benjamin family and worked at the Intelligencer which he bought from Benjamin.

David Spector, Hove England. Shared research project on the Jewish community of Brighton, England and the Cohen family.

Speeches and Articles (S&J Godfrey)

Source institutions: Kingston Public Library, National Archives, Public Archives of Ontario.

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

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

Correspondence, George Benjamin/John A. Macdonald Letters. (1856-1864). Includes photocopies and typescripts of letters from all sources including those privately held. Typescripts and copies of letters to and from others.

Susannah Moodie. Moodie wrote "Richard Redpath a Tale" the main character of which is based on a hostile portrayal of George Benjamin. It was published by Richard Bentley in 1853 as part of 'Matrimonial Speculations'

Correspondence, George Benjamin/John A. Macdonald Letters. (1856-1864). Includes photocopies and typescripts of letters from all sources including those privately held. Typescripts and copies of letters to and from others.

Benjamin Contemporaries

George Benjamin, Judaism

George Benajamin, Orange Lodges

Benjamin, End of Career January 1862 - September 1864

Benjamin 1857-1862

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

Benjamin 1850-1857

Belleville -- 1840s

Belleville/Thurlow, 1830s

George Benjamin General. Includes article in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Obituary, etc.

George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Emmanuel Hyman Benjamin (1832-1914)

George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Benjamin Family Records--Copies from Nancy Cooper