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Mordecai Sheftall, the Glossary

Mordecai Sheftall (December 2, 1735 – July 6, 1797) was a merchant who served as a colonel in the Continental Army.^[1]

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18th-century American Jews
Colonial American Jews
Continental Army officers from Georgia (U.S. state)
Jewish American people in Georgia (U.S. state) politics
Jewish American slave owners
Jews from Georgia (U.S. state)
Merchants from the Thirteen Colonies

American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Antigua

Antigua, also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the local population, is an island in the Lesser Antilles.

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Bar and bat mitzvah

A bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah, or b mitzvah (gender neutral), is a coming-of-age ritual in Judaism.

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Capture of Savannah

The Capture of Savannah, sometimes the First Battle of Savannah (because of the siege of 1779), or the Battle of Brewton Hill,Heitman, pp.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Charleston, South Carolina

Charleston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston metropolitan area.

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Congregation Mickve Israel

Congregation Mickve Israel (transliterated from Hebrew as "Congregation for the Hope of Israel") is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 20 East Gordon Street, Monterey Square, in Savannah, Georgia, in the United States.

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Congregation Mikveh Israel

Congregation Mikveh Israel (Holy Community Hope of Israel), is a Sephardic Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 44 North Fourth Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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Continental Army

The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War.

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Federal government of the United States

The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.

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Jewish education

Jewish education (חינוך, Chinuch) is the transmission of the tenets, principles, and religious laws of Judaism.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Kashrut

(also or, כַּשְׁרוּת) is a set of dietary laws dealing with the foods that Jewish people are permitted to eat and how those foods must be prepared according to Jewish law.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.

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Mordecai Sheftall Cemetery

The Mordecai Sheftall Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.

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New Georgia Encyclopedia

The New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) is a web-based encyclopedia containing over 2,000 articles about the state of Georgia.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Parliament of Great Britain

The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament of Scotland.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Prison ship

A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees.

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Prisoners of war in the American Revolutionary War

During the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), management and treatment of prisoners of war (POWs) were very different from the standards of modern warfare.

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Province of Georgia

The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America.

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Robert Howe (Continental Army officer)

Robert Howe (c. 1732 – December 14, 1786) was a Continental Army general from the Province of North Carolina during the American Revolutionary War. Mordecai Sheftall and Robert Howe (Continental Army officer) are American slave owners.

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Savannah, Georgia

Savannah is the oldest city in the U.S. state of Georgia and the county seat of Chatham County.

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Sifrei Kodesh

Sifrei Kodesh (Holy books), commonly referred to as sefarim (books), or in its singular form, sefer, are books of Jewish religious literature and are viewed by religious Jews as sacred.

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Stamp Act 1765

The Stamp Act 1765, also known as the Duties in American Colonies Act 1765 (5 Geo. 3. c. 12), was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper from London which included an embossed revenue stamp.

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Tefillin

Tefillin (Israeli Hebrew: /; Ashkenazic pronunciation:; Modern Hebrew pronunciation), or phylacteries, are a set of small black leather boxes with leather straps containing scrolls of parchment inscribed with verses from the Torah.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordecai_Sheftall

Also known as Mordechai Sheftal.