Abraham Alexander, Sr.^{[1, 2]}

1743 - 1816  (73 years)

• Name	Abraham Alexander  [1, 3]
  Suffix	Sr.
  Born	1743	London, Middlesex, England   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Arrival	1760	Charleston, SC   [3]
  Occupation	1764-1784  [3]
  	Hazzan
  Reference Number	3589
  Died	21 Feb 1816	Charleston, SC   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I3589	aojd
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2011

  
  

  Family ID

  F1255

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• Notes

  (Research):AJLLJ Portraits Database 5 Aug 2011 Abraham Alexander was born in London, the son of Joseph Raphael Alexander. At twenty-three he left for Charleston, sent by the Sephardi Bevis Marks Synagogue to serve as the second hazzan at Beth Elohim. It was a post that he would retain for nineteen years without compensation, until in 1784 he married his second wife, Ann Sarah Huguenin, the Huguenot widow of a friend.      Alexander was one of the initiators of freemasonry in Charleston. He was also known as an accomplished Hebrew scholar and calligraphist. He composed a mahzor, or High Holiday prayer book, in 1805. City registers also have him as a clerk and an auditor at the customs house and later as a collector of the port of Charleston. Family lore tells that upon Alexander's death, all of the flags flying from ships docked in the harbor and that above the Charleston customs house were lowered to half-mast. [4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S11] . [S285] . [S4] PG. 8 ALEXANDER I (1) (Reliability: 3). [S294] ALEXANDER, ABRAHAM SR. (Reliability: 3).