Nathan Family Papers
Item
Country
US
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
Contact information: phone number
001 2122948301
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
RCMiller@cjh.org (archive and library services)
Inquiries@cjh.org (research inquiries)
Inquiries@cjh.org (research inquiries)
Reference number
P-54
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state)
Nathan Family Papers
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
Nathan family
Date(s)
1791/1963
Language(s)
eng
heb
yid
Extent
1 half box and 1 oversized folder
Type of material
Textual Material
Physical condition
Good
Scope and content
This collection contains correspondence, business documents, marriage contracts, and other manuscript materials from the Nathan family. The materials related to Grace Seixas Nathan, daughter of the Sephardic merchant Isaac Mendes Seixas and sister of Gershom Mendes Seixas, are particularly interesting.
These materials include:
Folder 2: correspondence with her niece, Sarah Seixas Kursheedt (Gershom Mendes Seixas' daughter), from 1814-1821.
Folders 10 and 11: Grace Nathan's Poetry manuscript (1805-1830).
Transcriptions of this manuscript are in folder 12.
Digital copies of these materials are available on the archive's website.
These materials include:
Folder 2: correspondence with her niece, Sarah Seixas Kursheedt (Gershom Mendes Seixas' daughter), from 1814-1821.
Folders 10 and 11: Grace Nathan's Poetry manuscript (1805-1830).
Transcriptions of this manuscript are in folder 12.
Digital copies of these materials are available on the archive's website.
Archival history
This collection resulted from donations by David de Sola Pool in 1947 and the Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation in 1979.
Administrative / Biographical history
The Nathan family was involved in the American Jewish communities of both New York and Philadelphia, and it was linked to the Mendes Seixas family by marriage ties; Simon Nathan (1746-1822), the first member of the Nathan family to arrive in the colonies in 1773, married Grace Seixas (1752-1831), daughter of Isaac Mendes Seixas (c. 1709-1781), a Portuguese Jew who had arrived in New York in 1738. Other family members represented in this collection are Seixas Nathan (1785-1852), Gershom Nathan (1821-1864), Frederick Nathan (1844-1918) and Maud Nathan (1862-1946).
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System of arrangement
The collection is arranged chronologically by date.
Access, restrictions
The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Director of the Library and Archives of the American Jewish Historical Society, except for items restricted due to their fragility. The entire collection was digitized in June 2016 and is available online.
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2022
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| Title | Alternate label | Class |
|---|---|---|
| American Jewish Historical Society (Center for Jewish History) | Collections (official language of the state) |
| Title | Alternate label | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Gershom Mendes Seixas Papers | Existence and location of originals |