Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Jacob Lumbrozo
MSA SC 3520-14037

Sources:

Archival Sources:

PROVINCIAL COURT (Judgment Record) Depositions about Jacob Lumbrozo, 25 February 1658, Liber S (Liber PCR), 1658-1662, pp. 159-160 [MSA S551-1, 1/16/2/1].

GOVERNOR AND COUNCIL (Proceedings) Denization of Jacob alias John Lumbrozo, 1663, Liber HH, p. 188 [MSA S1071-5, 2/26/1/5].

PREROGATIVE COURT (Testamentary Proceedings) Will of John Lumbrozo, 1665, pp. 90-93, MdHR 957-6 [MSA S529-6, 1/12/2/26].
First recording of will taken from Lumbrozo's original will, which is not extant

PREROGATIVE COURT (Wills, Original Record) John Lumbrozo, 24 September 1665, Liber 1, pp. 249-250, MdHR 1279-4 [MSA S538-1, 1/11/1/1].
Copied c. 1725 from original recorded version

CHARLES COUNTY COURT (Wills) John Lumbrozo, 24 February 1665/66, Liber 2A, pp. 1-2, MdHR 7281 [MSA C681-1, 1/8/10/1].
Transcribed in the late 1700s from Liber 1

PREROGATIVE COURT (Testamentary Proceedings) John Lumbrozo, inventory, 12 August 1666, Liber 2, pp. 30-32, MdHR 958 [MSA S529-7, 1/12/2/27].

Published Sources:

Bogan, David S. "Mathias de Sousa: Maryland's First Colonist of African Descent." The Maryland Historical Magazine 96, no. 1 (Spr., 2001), 68-85.

Falb, Susan Rosenfeld. "Matthias de Sousa: Colonial Maryland's Black, Jewish Assemblyman." The Maryland Historical Magazine 73, no. 4 (Dec., 1978), 397-398.

Gibb, Carson, compl. A Supplement to the Early Settlers of Maryland.

Goldstein, Eric L. Traders and Transports: The Jews of Colonial Maryland. Baltimore: Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, 1993.

Hollander, J. H. "Some Unpublished Material Relating to Dr. Jacob Lumbrozo, of Maryland." Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 1, 25-39. Available online via GoogleBooks.

Norton, Mary Beth. "Gender and Defamation in Seventeenth-Century Maryland." The William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., vol. 44, no. 1 (Jan., 1987), 4-39.

Semmes, Raphael. Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1938.

Web Sources:

"An Act Concerning Religion, April 21, 1649." An Interpretation and Tribute To The Citizen Legislators of Maryland. Maryland State Archives, Museum Online, MSA SC 2221-25.

Archives of Maryland Online. Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1661-1675. Vol. 3.

Archives of Maryland Online. Provincial Court Proceedings, 1658. Vol. 41.

Archives of Maryland Online. Charles County Court Proceedings, 1666-1668. Vol. 60.

Archives of Maryland Online. Charles County Court Proceedings, 1662-1666. Vol. 53.

Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. Library of Congress.


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