Jewish Plantations, Rabbis and Marriages
From 1642 to 1750
Jewish Plantations 1677-1750
Short after the delivery of the country to the Dutch were 2 surveyors send in the colony, Pieter de Beaumont, which the country of his determination never reached because he fell in the hands of the Englishmen, and Willem Mogge, who was ascertained at the 12th Aug 1667. In his contract , 30 guilders per month (at free food) he was advised to prepare a map of Suriname within a year . At the end of his contract he could continue working and live as free man in Suriname.
The map appeared however in 1677 and was published in "Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap, 2e Ser. dl. XXX, 1913, afl.1. It indicates an amount of names of jewish plantation owners:
The first map maybe the oldest is dated 1667 printed by Willem Mogge.
Commewine River:
Jsack van Mildert
Leyll
Adrian Lys
I.Leyll
Frans Bruninck
Paramaribo:
Edvar Jordan
Samuel Nassy
Para Creek:
Otto Eden
Suriname River:
I. Nassy
De Fonseca
Don Pedro
Israelyt
Aron
Samuel Nassy
Benta da Costa
Elias Ely
De Silva
Lichtenberg
Solis
Mesa
Perera
De Casseres
M. Nassy
Nunes
Nachtegall
Simson
The map of H. Doncker, Paskeart van de Rivieren van Suriname en Commewyne, 1678 (Universiteitsbibliotheek, Leiden, Port.63, no.53). It shows how rapitly he Situation changed after the land gets under Dutch administration. A lot of english people left and Jews take over the plantations.
I. Leyll
Daniel Mildens
Isack Mildens
Leyll
Paramaribo:
Edvar Jordan
Suriname River:
J.Volkersen
Samuell Nassy
Ian Jacobs
Mercus
Moseh Nassy
Isack Joseph Drago
Izaque Pereira
Rafael Aboafe
De Casseres
Jofoe en Jasop Nassy
Lichtenberg
Parera
Mesa
Joseph Nassy
Solis
De Silva
Elias Ely
Nassy
Isaque da Costa
Abraham di Pinna
Costa
Baruch dīCosta
Nassy
Aron
Don Pedro
David Drago
De Fonseca
Israelyt
Baruch Jacobs