Aaron Lopez Papers 1752-1994, 1846, 1852, 1953

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Aaron Lopez Papers 1752-1994, 1846, 1852, 1953

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Aaron Lopez (1731-1782) was a Jew of the Converso (converted) community of Portugal. In order to freely practice Judaism, he and his family left Portugal and relocated to British North America settling in Newport, Rhode Island and later, Massachusetts. He began a successful mercantile business and eventually became a key supplier of the American revolutionary forces. The collection contains numerous shipping records along with correspondence and accounts with merchants, mercantile families and firms including Henry Lloyd of Boston, Henry Cruger of Bristol, George Hayley of London, William Stead of Sheffield and New Bedford whaler Joseph Rotch. The collection contains manifests, mercantile accounts, notations, correspondence and inventories of estates for several ofthe children of Aaron Lopez.

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Lopez, Aaron, 1731-1782

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Colonial merchant and shipper, Aaron Lopez was born in Portugal in 1831. He immigrated to Newport,Rhode Island in 1752 where he was engaged primarily in the whale oil and candle business, although healso dealt in livestock, groceries, rum, ships, clothing, and slaves. During the 1760s and 1770s, he builtan extensive transatlantic mercantile empire and on the eve of the American Revolution, Lopez wasNewport's leading merchant and taxpayer. During the Revolution, he supported the colonials and wit...

Seixas, Moses, 1744-1809.

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Rivera, Jacob Rodriquez, 1717-1789

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Lopez, Joshua

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Lopez, Juliet

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Gomez, Moses, 1728-1789

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Rodriquez, Manuel

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Gomez, Daniek, 1759-1784

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Lopez, Abraham, 1711-

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Lopez, Joseph, 1756-1822

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Lopez, David, 1750-1812

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Lucena, James

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Cruger, Henry, 1739-1827

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Hayley and Hopkins

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Rotch, Joseph, 1704-1784

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Mendes, Isaac Pereira

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Hart, Joshua, d. 1787

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