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Bidding Information
Lot #    15215
Auction End Date    7/18/2006 12:25:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Articles of Indenture
Author    [Ms. - Vellum]
City    Montreal, 3rd March
Publication Date    1778
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Printed document on vellum, 175:205 mm., light age staining, creased, ink on vellum, signed, dated, revenue stamp intact, remnant of seal.
          
Detailed
Description		    Apprenticing Barnet Hart "in the art of merchandizing" to Samuel Judah for a period of seven years. Signed by Elizabeth Judah ("for my husband Saml Judah"). Witnessed by Barnet Cohen and A. Cohen. Signed by all three on verso.

Samuel Judah (1725–1789) originally from Breslau, went to Canada with Lord Amherst's army and was one of the founders of the Montreal Jewish community, establishing himself there by 1761. He and his brother-in-law Aaron Hart of Trois RiviIres, Canada, later conducted an extensive business in furs with London. He sympathized with the colonists during the Revolutionary War, lending them a considerable sum of money which was never repaid.

          
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Description		    EJ
        
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Listing Classification
Period
  
18th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
Subject
  
Characteristic
Parchment or vellum:    Checked
Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica