Know all Men by these presents that Hananel Mendes Da Costa and Jacob Mendes Da Costa of London merchants and copartners... appoint Nicholas Low of the city of New York in the state of New York in North America merchant and Thomas Lawrence & Jacob Morris... to be the true and lawful attornies and attorney of them...
by [MENDES DA COSTA]
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London; New York. 1st June 1785; 16th November 1785. . Manuscript, single leaf; folio (33.5 x 21 cm); blind stamp to header, signed with seals to verso, easily legible hand; marginal tears with two areas of text-loss partially repaired in tape, small hole (approx. 0.5 x 2 cm) affecting text.
A power of attorney appointing the New York based merchants Nicholas Low, Thomas Lawrence and Jacob Morris to perform any such 'Actes Deeds Matters Businness and things whatsoever as may be needful requisite and necessary in the premises as they the said Constituents [i.e. Hananel and Jacob Mendes da Costa] might or could themselves do if personally present in the said State of New York', signed 1st June 1785. Later witnessed before Richard Morris, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Judicature for the state of New York, and countersigned by him on 16th November 1785 confirming the legal validity of the document.
The Mendes da Costa family settled in England at the end of the seventeenth century. A well-known Sephardi family from Rouen, they helped to establish the burgeoning Jewish community in London and were involved in the growing Anglo-Indian diamond and commodities trade. This power of attorney signed just two years after the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War was an important means of extending the family's business interests to America at a time when mail ships took an average of four weeks to reach the new world.
A power of attorney appointing the New York based merchants Nicholas Low, Thomas Lawrence and Jacob Morris to perform any such 'Actes Deeds Matters Businness and things whatsoever as may be needful requisite and necessary in the premises as they the said Constituents [i.e. Hananel and Jacob Mendes da Costa] might or could themselves do if personally present in the said State of New York', signed 1st June 1785. Later witnessed before Richard Morris, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Judicature for the state of New York, and countersigned by him on 16th November 1785 confirming the legal validity of the document.
The Mendes da Costa family settled in England at the end of the seventeenth century. A well-known Sephardi family from Rouen, they helped to establish the burgeoning Jewish community in London and were involved in the growing Anglo-Indian diamond and commodities trade. This power of attorney signed just two years after the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War was an important means of extending the family's business interests to America at a time when mail ships took an average of four weeks to reach the new world.
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- Know all Men by these presents that Hananel Mendes Da Costa and Jacob Mendes Da Costa of London merchants and copartners... appoint Nicholas Low of the city of New York in the state of New York in North America merchant and Thomas Lawrence & Jacob Morris... to be the true and lawful attornies and attorney of them...
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- [MENDES DA COSTA]
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- Used
- Place of Publication
- London; New York. 1st June 1785; 16th November 1785.
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