Moses Seixas

Warden of the Newport congregation · 1744–1809

Sephardi · EstablishedOttoman, North African & Western Centers

Warden of Newport's Jewish congregation whose 1790 letter of welcome to George Washington drew the famous reply that the new government gives 'to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.'

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