Levy family (New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore) papers 1710-1835

Contains the papers of the following members of the Levy family: Moses Levy (1665-1728), two legal documents regarding actions taken in the Mayor's Court of New York (1710-11), and photocopies of five miscellaneous personal items (1717-20); his sons Nathan (1704-1753) and Isaac (1706-1777) Levy, a co-signed receipt (1739); his son, Samson Levy (1722-1782), a letter to his son Moses Levy (1776), a signature on a document renouncing allegiance to King George III, also signed by his son, Moses (1778), and the accounts of his estate (1781-1789); his son, Benjamin Levy (1726-1802), 4 pieces of Continental currency signed by "B. Levy" (1776), a photostat of a personal letter to Major Horatio Gates (1775) [appears in Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, vol. 25, p. 143], a autograph personal letter to Robert Morris (1776), and a letter concerning a debt (1804); his grandson, Moses Levy (1756-1826), a militia document signed by Levy as secretary of the company (1776), 12 miscellaneous items reflecting Levy's legal career (1785-1819), a photostat of Levy's picture, 13 personal items including stock certificates from the Pennsylvania Property Company signed by Robert Morris and Thomas Fitzsimons (1794-1826), a list of special jury trials, December term 1797, in which Moses Levy and his brother, Samson, are among the attorneys listed, and among whom the litigants are a Nones and a Moses (1797)Correspondence regarding a lawsuit (1800), and his handwritten will with codicils (1825); his grandson, Samson Levy, Jr. (1764-1831), 2 items relating to legal matters (1799, 1801), and a document admitting James Madison Porter to the bar (1813); his grandson, Nathan Levy (1759-1846), a customs document signed by Nathan Levy as U.S. consul on Saint Thomas (1835); his grandson, Daniel Levy (b. 1766), a land deed (1796)digitizedGift, in part, of the Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang FoundationGift, in part, of Yosef Goldma