Jewish Colonists
Near this site on July 11, 1733, five months
after Oglethorpe founded Georgia, 42 Jewish
colonists, having sailed from London,
disembarked from the William and Sarah.
It was the largest group of Jews ever to sail
on one vessel from North America in Colonial
Times.
All of the families, with the exception of three,
were Sephardic Jews, originally from Portugal
or Spain; the other three families were Germanic.
Congregation Mickve Israel July 11, 1983.
Marker can be reached from East River Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
