Leo Hershkowitz Collection

Item

Country

US

Name of institution (official language of the state)

Language of name of institution

eng

Contact information: postal address

3101 Clifton Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45220

Contact information: phone number

001 513 487 3000

Contact information: web address

Contact information: email

Reference number

MS-418

Type of reference number

Archival reference number

Title (official language of the state)

Leo Hershkowitz Collection

Language of title

eng

Creator / accumulator

Leo Hershkowitz

Date(s)

1682/1752

Language(s)

eng

Extent

1 oversized box

Type of material

Textual Material

Physical condition

Good

Scope and content

The Leo Hershkowitz Collection comprises original documents related to Jews living in New York from the 1680s to the early 18th century, namely inventories of assets and financial records. The following are related to Sephardic Jews:
Folder 1: Inventory and appraisement of assets belonging to Ester Brown, late of New York, taken at the request of her executrix and daughter Abigail Brown. New York, July 1, 1708.
Folder 2: Inventory and appraisement of goods and chattels of the estate of Joseph Bueno, deceased. New York, November 12, 1768. Lewis Gomez and Abraham de Lucena were executors of Bueno's estate. It also includes a list of several debts belonging to Bueno's estate and an account of the administration of Lewis Gomez and Abraham de Lucena, executors of the last will of Joseph Bueno. February 19, 1710.
Folder 4: Financial record (New York State, 1752), namely a list of "city seal creditors", including references to Rowland De Paiba freedom (May 15, 1756, £3.0.0), Isaac Mendes and other merchants (December 22, 1756), and John Moraes (July 31, 1758, £1.12.0)
Folder 7: Inventory of goods, chattels and credits of Isaac Rodrigues Marques, late of New York, deceased merchant, taken on January 19, 1707, and exhibited by Rachel, his widow and executrix, on April 9, 1708. Includes references to a voyage to Curaçao, carrying three barrels of "bisket" (biscuit?) consigned to Solomon Levy Maduro and another to "Novis" (Nevis?), consigned to Isaac Pinero. Aaron Lamego of Jamaica was one of the creditors of Marques' estate.
Folder 8: Inventory and appraisement of the estate of Joseph Nunes, taken at the desire of Paul Droillet and Mr Lewis Gomes with his executors in New York, October 8, 1705.
Folder 9: Inventory and appraisement of the goods and chattels of Isaac Pinheiro. New York, February 22, 1710.

Archival history

The American Jewish Archives received this collection from Leo Hershkowitz in 2005.

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System of arrangement

The records are organised according to individuals.

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Author of the description

Carla Vieira, 2022

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The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives Collections (official language of the state)
The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives Collections (official language of the state)