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 1753 - 1824 (71 years)
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| Name |
Joseph Andrews [2, 3] |
| Born |
1753 |
Strasbourg. Alsace-Lorraine, France  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
3962 |
| Died |
31 Oct 1824 |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [2] |
| Person ID |
I3962 |
aojd |
| Last Modified |
11 Nov 2011 |
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| Notes |
- (Research):AJLLJ Portraits Database 5 Aug 2011
Born in Strasbourg in 1753, it is uncertain exactly when Joseph Andrews arrived in America. By the 1790s he had settled in New York, and in August of 1794 married Sallie Saloman, the eldest daughter of Haym Salomon, "financier of the Revolution." Though twenty-nine years separated this couple, theirs would prove a fruitful marriage, marked by thirty years and twelve children.
In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Andrews was active in New York's Congregation Shearith Israel. Synagogue records have him criticizing the community's shohet for laxity of standards in 1808, and a year later signing a petition to bring under control the loud public financial pledges made during services in exchange for ritual honors. Other signatories of this petition included Israel Baer Kursheedt, Aaron Levy and Harmon Hendricks.
By 1813 the Andrews family had moved to Philadelphia, where Joseph worked as a Hebrew teacher and a merchant. In 1816 he joined Mikveh Israel, a synagogue with which he again became deeply involved.
Eldest son, Joseph I. Andrews, married the granddaughter of Revolutionary War soldier, Benjamin Nones. While a daughter, Deborah, married Jonas Horwitz, a physician and Hebraist who attempted, though ultimately gave up his plans, to publish the first Hebrew Bible in America. In a macabre turn, about which little is known, two of the Andrews children, Salomon and Eliezer Lewis, the latter married at the time, carried out a suicide pact on April 22, 1848. [4]
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- [S285] .
- [S4] PG. 12 ANDREWS I (Reliability: 3).
- [S4] PG. 257 SALOMON (1) (Reliability: 3).
- [S294] ANDREWS, JOSEPH (Reliability: 3).
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