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January 27, 1820

NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, Jan. 27, 1820 

* Mordecai Manuel Noah
* Jewish homeland on the Niagara River


The front page has a report about the memorial presented to the New York State Legislature by Mordecai Noah, editor of the New York National Journal, seeking the sale of Grand Island in the Niagara River: "...for the purpose of building a city thereon & inviting a community of  Jewish emigrants to that  place...". It describes the island & other details about Noah's plan to establish a Jewish homeland.
Four pages, some foxing and several small archival mends at margins.

Category: Pre-Civil War