Jonas Phillips Papers
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Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Congregation Mikveh Israel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) traces its history to September 25, 1740 when the Province of Pennsylvania and Thomas Penn authorized a permanent burial ground for the entire Jewish community of Philadelphia. Jews in Philadelphia in the 1740s and 1750s organized themselves informally for services. In 1761 they acquired a Torah scroll and met in a private residence on Sterling Alley, then between Cherry and Race Streets and Third and Fourth Streets. The congregation moved ...
Phillips, Rebecca Machado, 1746-1831
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Rebecca Machado Phillips, daughter of David Mendez Machado (1695-1747) and Zipporah Nunez (1714-1799). Married Jonas Phillips on 10 November 1762 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. In 1801, at age 55, Rebecca was one of the founding members of the Female Association for Relief of Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances, a nonsectarian organization. In 1819, at age 74, she was director of the Female Benevolent Society, the first Jewish charity in America unrelated to a synagogue....
Phillips, Jonas, 1736-1803
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Jonas Phillips was born in Germany in 1736. Phillips was a merchant, patriot, and patriarch of the Phillips family in America. Phillips was a founder of Congregation Mickve Israel, Philadelphia, and served in the Philadelphia militia during the Revolutionary War. Phillips married Rebecca Mendez Machado, with whom he had twenty-one children. Phillips died in 1803. ...
