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Note for: John Bard, 11 Nov 1796 - Index

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John Bard was a wagon maker.

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Note for: Samuel Seldon Curtis, 1773 - Index

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Information copied from that obtained by Fred L. Curtis at Unadilla, NY. This was given by Daniel Curtis, great-grandson of Samuel, grandson of Lysander & son of Olival Curtis saying that Samuel Curtis came to Unadilla from Columbia County and was twice married, Lysander being the only child by his first wife - but could not give the name of either wife. He also said that he had heard his grandfather say he could remember taking grain to mill in Columbia County on horseback and also of being related to Jack Curtis of Rockdale, NY.

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Note for: Vinton Curtis, - Index

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Vinton lives in Morris, NY.

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Note for: (daughter) Curtis, - Index

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Lives in Unadilla.

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Note for: (daughter) Curtis, - Index

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Lives in Unadilla.

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Note for: Albert Jones, - Index

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Albert is from Cincinnati.

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Note for: Albert Potter, - Index

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Alber is from Gilberstville, NY.

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Note for: Louis Moses Gomez, 1660 - 31 Mar 1740 Index

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      Louis lived in France and England. Settled in New York 1696-1702.
        In 1714 Luis Moses Gomez, who had fled from the Spanish inquisition, purchased 6,000 acres of land along the Hudson Highlands where several Indian trails converged. Here he built a fieldstone block house into the side of a hill and by a stream that became known as “Jews Creek.”
        The great walls of the house - which are about three feet thick - still stand today. Native Americans came to hold ceremonial rites at their campground at the Duyfil’s Danskammer (Devil’s Dance Chamber) on the shores of the Hudson on Gomez’s property. For some thirty years Luis Gomez and his sons conducted a thriving fur trade from the fortress like house. Luis Moses Gomez became the first parnas (president) when the synagogue of New York’s Spanish and Portuguese congregation was built. Among the family connections were poetess Emma Lazarus and Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo.
        BY ISAAC GOMEZ — born in New York on the 28th July 1768:
        "My Great Grandfather Louis Moses Gomez (his only son who got the name of Louis I suppose in respect to the King of France) (his country being the asylum of the family) married Miss Esther Markaze by whom he had six sons, namely, Jacob, Mordicia, Daniel, David, Isaac and Benjamin, with whom and his sister Leonora went over to Great Britain, I believe at the time of the religious distress of the Huguenots in France. How long he remained in England, I know not but he obtained a letter of denization which I now have in my possession from the Crown of England for him and his family to reside in America which placed him and his family on the same footing with the people of the crown, a matter of great importance as the Jews were far from being on the same footing with the people of the Christian faith."

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Note for: Isaac Gomez, 1620 - Index

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By Isaac Gomez — born in New York on the 28th July 1768:
"My Great, Great Grandfather, Isaac Gomez, was a Spanish nobleman a favorite at the Court and particularly noticed by the King. The Inquisition formed a plan to take him and his family and confiscate his estate on account of his being of the Jewish persuasion. The King having found it out let him know of it by a letter in terms not to be understood by any person but himself on which information he sent his wife and infant son, Moses, with some of his jewels to France, but before he could get ready with his other property to make his escape the Inquisition laid hold of him and made him a prisoner for fourteen years and confiscated all his property. Whether they let him out or he made his escape, I am not informed, but at the end of fourteen years he got over to France where his son got to be a fine boy. He after that had two daughters, one married a Leghorn, his name I know not. The name of the other daughter, Leonora. He died in France."