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Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America

A Genealogical History
Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America


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"From historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA testing, genealogies, and settler lists, and the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent positions in all of the original colonies, this work looks freshly at the early American experience, postulating that many initial

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"From historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA testing, genealogies, and settler lists, and the widespread presence of Jews and Muslims in prominent positions in all of the original colonies, this work looks freshly at the early American experience, postulating that many initial US colonists were of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry"--Provided by publisher.

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Additional Contributors: Yates, Donald Neal
Imprint: Jefferson, N.C. - McFarland & Company
Pages: 285
ISBN: 9780786464623, 0786464623
Call number: 929.1072 H6696j 2012
Language: English
Contents: Mapmakers, privateers, and promoters
Sephardim in the new world
Virginia: first-and not so English-colony
Massachusetts: pilgrims, Puritans, Jews, and Moors
New York colony: Dutch, British, and Jewish
Pennsylvania: Quakers and other Friends
Maryland: Catholic in her tastes
Huguenot South Carolina
Georgia, the last colony
Beacon of Freemasonry: Elias Ashmole, John Skene and early American lodges
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Mapmakers, privateers, and promoters -- Sephardim in the new world -- Virginia: first-and not so English-colony -- Massachusetts: pilgrims, Puritans, Jews, and Moors -- New York colony: Dutch, British, and Jewish -- Pennsylvania: Quakers and other Friends -- Maryland: Catholic in her tastes -- Huguenot South Carolina -- Georgia, the last colony -- Beacon of Freemasonry: Elias Ashmole, John Skene and early American lodges
Statement of responsibility: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates
Characteristics: vi, 285 p. :,ill. ;,26 cm
Author (Original Script): Hirschman, Elizabeth Caldwell
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