[2] Attorney general 1752-1759, advocate general 1753-1759, d. 1759. He filed his claim on behalf of the crown Feb. 17 and Mar. 10; the judge dismissed it Apr. 19, 1758, on the ground that the king had no interest in the goods. Marsden, p. 185; [doc. no. 188], and other papers.
[3] Samson or Sampson Simson, d. 1773, son of Rabbi Joseph Simson and uncle of that Samson Simson who founded the Mt. Sinai Hospital, was the chief Jewish merchant in New York, owner of several privateers, and later one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce. At this time he was parnas residente (president) of the Congregation Shearith Israel, till 1825 the one Jewish congregation in New York. Publications of the American Jewish Hist. Soc., II. 83, III. 81, X. 109-117, XI. 155, XXI. 74, XXV. 90. Dr. Benjamin Kennicott, in The Ten Annual Accounts of the Collation of Hebrew MSS. of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1770), p. 161, mentions information from President Cooper in New York "that Mr. Sampson Simson, a very worthy and benevolent old Gentleman, of the Jewish persuasion, living in that city, is in possession of a MS. of very great antiquity, containing the whole Hebrew Bible"—on which see Ezra Stiles, Literary Diary, III. 3, 32.
[4] At the mouth of the Guadalquivir. Columbus sailed thence on his third voyage, in 1498.
[5] Trinidad, near the middle of the south side of Cuba.
[6] Small short swords.
[7] The deponent.
[8] Cabañas, 35 miles west of Havana.
[9] A German living in Georgia, see [doc. no. 194], paragraph 5.
[10] Also a resident of Georgia (ibid.); constable of Frederica some years before, Col. Rec. Ga., VI. 210.
[11] See [doc. no. 185].