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Country
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US
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Language of name of institution
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eng
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Contact information: postal address
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3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
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Contact information: phone number
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01 513 487 3000
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Reference number
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MS-579
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (official language of the state)
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Nathan Simson Papers
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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Nathan Simson
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Date(s)
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1710/1725
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Language(s)
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eng
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heb
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dut
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Extent
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3 microfilm reels
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Physical condition
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Good
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Scope and content
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This collection comprises copies of papers related to the New York merchant Nathan Simson, whose originals are part of the National Archives (Kew) collection. It includes letters, journals, freight books, invoices, receipts, bills of lading and ledgers. Some of Simson's partners, agents, correspondents and customers were Sephardim Jews from New York, Charleston, Savannah, Jamaica, Barbados or Curaçao, including Abraham de Lucena, Diego & Abraham Gonsales, Abrão Ulloa, Isaac Levy Maduro, Rodrigo Pacheco, Mordecai Gomez, Benjamin & Samuel de Casseres, Jacob Gomez, or Benjamin Pereira. For this reason, this collection contains relevant information regarding Sephardic merchant networks in the 18th-century Atlantic.
Nathan Simson papers also include the oldest known synagogue record book of the Jewish community of New York, dating from 1720-21. When Simson returned to England in 1722, he took these congregational financial records with him, together with his commercial papers. After his death in 1725, these records were deposited in the Public Record Office in London (see Marcus 1963).
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Archival history
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The Nathan Simon Papers were received from Public Records Office, London, England, in 1960.
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Administrative / Biographical history
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Nathan Simson was an Ashkenazic Jew who settled in New York in the early 1700s and became a prominent merchant. Simson was active in the Atlantic trade, and his papers show that he traded with several North American ports and extended his business to the ports of Jamaica, Barbados, Curaçao, London, and Amsterdam, among others. In 1722, Nathan Simson moved to London and left his nephew Joseph Simson to run the business in New York. He passed away in 1725.
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Access, restrictions
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The collection is only available for consultation in microfilm.
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2022
