Sheldon and Judy Godfrey collection

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
2003-060/027(7) "G," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(8) "H," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(10) "K-L," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(11) "M," Miscellaneous File
2003-060/027(23) Correspondence in Lawe Papers -- (2 of 2) File
2003-060/029(2) Lower Canada - Abolition of State Oaths File
2003-060/029(3) Province of Canada File
2003-060/029(5) Instructions to Governors - O.S. File
2003-060/029(13) Election to Public Office - Ezekiel Hart elections File
2003-060/029(15) Jews Appointed to Canadian Juries File
2003-060/030(1) Judicial Appointments File
2003-060/030(4) Barbados File
2003-060/030(9) The Constitutions in America File
2003-060/030(11) Norfolk, Virginia File
2003-060/030(14) Maryland File
2003-060/030(15) Pennsylvania File
2003-060/031(1) South Carolina File
2003-060/031(7) Simon Valentine (Valentijn) Vander-Wilden File
2003-060/031(10) Kimber CSSN 1834 File
2003-060/032(4) General File
2006-057/001(5) Letter from Henry J. Noad, Quebec, to Michael Samuel, Miramachi, regarding loss of cargo with the sinking of the schooner "Eclipse" File 8 January 1841
2006-057/001(8) Action on anti-Semitic incidents in Toronto File 3 December 1963
2006-057/001(12) Pamphlets from the Goel Tzedec congregation, University Avenue, Toronto File 1949
2006-057/001(14) Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity File 1945
2006-057/001(22) Engravings of Oliver Cromwell, King George III, the Duke of Cumberland, and the Battle of Waterloo File ca. 1816
2006-057/002(1) A sett of quadrilles / Chs. F. Hausman File 1838
2006-057/002(11) Montreal herald File 9 August 1856
2007-062/001(4) Calling card for Charles Bradlaugh File 18--
2007-062/001(5) Advertising trade cards File ca. 1885
2007-062/002(6) The Quebec gazette File 1804-1812
2007-062/003(2) Plan of the town of William Henry File 26 April 1824
2007-062/004(1) Caledonian mercury (Edinburgh) File 9, 19, and 21 November 1812
2007-062/006(6) Montreal herald and daily commercial gazette File 1854-1864
2007-062/006(8) The leader (Toronto) File July 1863
2007-062/006(11) Map to illustrate the climatology of the dominion of Canada / by Lorin Blodget File 1874
2003-060/001(11) Judah Family File 1833,1894
2003-060/001(15) Nordheimer Family File 1827-1894, 1994
2003-060/001(16) Pines Family File 1780-1783
2003-060/001(18) James Solomon File 1816-1835
2003-060/001(21) Miscellaneous Documents File 1815-1991
2005-051/001(1) George Benjamin papers File 1816-1864 View
2005-051/001(4) Letson, Phillip File 1841
2003-060/003(5) Braham, Alfred, Clothier, Toronto, (1844--). File
2003-060/003(8) Cohen, Solomon, Jeweller, Toronto 1835-c.1845 File 1835-c.1845
2003-060/003(12) Diamond, Abraham, b. Prince Edward County, 1828. (Identified by a descendant as Jewish). File 1828
2003-060/003(13) Driskoll, Lizzie, "daughter of Jonas and Rebecca Driskoll," (b.Toronto, 1838). Married Alfred Myers of New York in Toronto Hebrew Congregration, 1862. Elizabeth Driscoll was the youngest of four children of Sophia Nathan of a Montreal Jewish Family and William Driscoll of Kingston. File
2003-060/003(14) Franks, C., tavern, hotel and theatre, N.W. corner of Colborne and Market Sts. Scene of play by Mr. and Mrs. Judah, 1826. File
2003-060/003(16) Hart, Arthur Wellington, son of Benjamin Hart, in York, 1833. File 1833
2003-060/003(20) Hart, Samuel P., 1837 patriot, owner of the "Plain Speaker" Cobourg and Belleville. File 1837
2003-060/003(25) Jacobs, Ferdinande, (1713-1783), chief factor of Hudson's Bay Company Post at Fort York c.1750. No record of his [Jewish] religion has been traced in the HBC Archives" according to his biographer Shirlee Anne Smith [D.C.B. vol.pp 383-4]. Captain John Rogers diary referred to his daughter as offspring of "Jacob (a Jew)." File
2003-060/004(1) Judah, J. [Issac] of Montreal and Cornwall U.C. in 1804, probably became the first Jew to obtain Crown Grant of Lands in Upper Canada. File
2003-060/004(7) Michael, George, (c.1835-1889) optician, arrived Toronto about 1866. File
2003-060/004(15) Solomons, Myers settled in Cornwall Townships 1789. File
2003-060/004(16) Steiner, Newman Leopold (1829/32-1903) research by SJG for DCB article in vol 13. Includes research material from Florence Blackwell, descendant. File
2003-060/004(18) Miscellaneous: Possible Jewish Settlers File
2003-060/005(4) Dictionary of Canadian Biography - Article on Jacob Franks by SJG. Four(4)files containing correspondence, drafts, redrafts and copies of the final article and footnotes. File
2003-060/006(1) Jacob Franks: Articles and Footnotes File
2003-060/006(4) Thomas L. Franks (d. Green Bay, 1853). Son of Jacob Franks and Therese La Guere dit La Rose. Information and copies of archival documents from the John Lawe Papers and Morgan Martin Papers provided by Mary C. Maring, Madison, Wisconsin. File
2003-060/006(10) Fur Trade Secondary, including photocopies of articles. File
2003-060/006(13) Mary Martin, Madison Wisconsin, researcher on John Lawe Papers. Correspondence and copies of archival documents. File
2003-060/006(16) George W. Lawe Papers - Chicago Historical Society. Correspondence and copies of archival documents. File
2003-060/007(3) Fur trade General File
2003-060/007(10) Solomons, Levy (d. 1792, Montreal). Solomons, Levy or Solomon Levy (1730-1792) was one of the five members of the Great Lakes fur trade syndicate that was disrupted by Pontiac's uprising in June 1763. The Solomons/Levy family. File
2003-060/007(11) Solomons, Levy (d. 1792, Montreal). Solomons, Levy or Solomon Levy (1730-1792) was one of the five members of the Great Lakes fur trade syndicate that was disrupted by Pontiac's uprising in June 1763. The Solomons/Levy family. File
2003-060/008(8) Drummond Island/St. Joseph's Island/Penetanguishene. The British Loyalists who inhabited Mackinac Island were obliged to leave by the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812. In 1815 they moved to Drummond Island which the British subsequently agreed, was in American territory. The British settlers left their new home in 1826 and reestablished themselves at Penetanguishene and St. Joseph Island. File
2003-060/009(1) George Benjamin - Ancestry File
2003-060/009(4) George Benjamin - Collaterals and their descendants. Nancy Benjamin Cooper (b.1927) File
2003-060/009(9) George Benjamin/Thomas George Joans. Joans, and Englishman who arrived in New Orleans about 1830, was editor and proprieter of the Mercantile Advertiser, and married Isabella the daughter of Levi Jacobs on 5 May 1832. He left New Orleans by March 1834. Benjamin, and Englishman who was later founder of the Belleville Intelligencer, arrived in New Orleans about 1830, and married Isabella, the daughter of Lipman Jacobs 5 Febrary, 1832. He left New Orleans and arrived in York, U.C. by the end of 1833. File
2003-060/009(12) Belleville -- 1840s File 1840s
2003-060/010(6) Benjamin Contemporaries File
2003-060/010(9) Correspondence, George Benjamin/John A. Macdonald Letters. (1856-1864). Includes photocopies and typescripts of letters from all sources including those privately held. Typescripts and copies of letters to and from others. File
2003-060/012(5) Cohen Esdaile P., in Montreal by 1832. File
2003-060/012(7) David, Eleazar (Lazarus) David, (1811-1887). File
2003-060/012(12) Davis, Samuel, (b.c.1792) in Montreal by 1832, tobacco merchant. File
2003-060/012(13) Davis, Mrs., Montreal, 1779. File
2003-060/012(17) Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: John Franks, Philadelphia pre 1749 and 1757-61. File
2003-060/012(19) Franks, John (c.1720-1794) Halifax by 1749, Quebec by 1760, d.Mtl. as ff: "Inspector of Chimneys" for Quebec, Montreal and Three Rivers, 1768 (first Jew in a British country to be appointed to public office by Commission). File
2003-060/013(3) (Franks), Rebecca Franks Kemble (1780-1839) daughter of John. File
2003-060/013(4) Hart, Aaron (1724-1800, Three Rivers) in Quebec by 1761. See Aaron Hart Will. File
2003-060/013(6) Hart, Aaron Ezekiel (1803-1857) son of Ezekiel Hart and Frances Lazarus. File
2003-060/013(11) Hart, Herman Fisher, son of Henry Hart (brother of Aaron Hart). File
2003-060/013(15) Hays Family -- Solomon Hays d.1788, Barracks Hays, Andrew Hays File
2003-060/013(17) Hazen, Moses, (1733-1803) probably not Jewish. File
2003-060/014(3) Jacobs, Samuel: Miscellaneous File
2003-060/014(4) Jacob Papers Hebrew Letters. Two letters dating from 1775-6 from vol.3 of the Jacobs papers are in an untranslatable form of Yiddish. File
2003-060/014(10) Abraham Judah (d.1784)& family: Judah was in Montreal with his family by 1780. His daughter Dorthea ("Dolly")(1747-1827) who had married Aaron Hart, was in Three Rivers by 1768. File
2003-060/014(11) Samuel Judah (1725-1789) was the oldest son of Abraham. File
2003-060/014(12) Thomas Judah File
2003-060/014(14) Lazarus, Simon in Berthier L.C., 1793-7. His niece m. Ezekiel Hart, 1794. File
2003-060/014(15) Levy, Alexander in Quebec 1832 File
2003-060/015(10) Myers, Moses. S&M Myers Letterbook 1785-1787 (copy from American Jewish Archives). File
2003-060/015(11) Myers, Moses. S&M Myers Letterbook 1785-1787 (copy from American Jewish Archives). File
2003-060/015(15) Nathan, Moses, auctioneer, d.Montreal 1804. His widow, Elizabeth Lyons Nathan became Lower Canada's first licensed women auctioneer in 1808. See Elizabeth Lyons notarial wills. File
2003-060/015(17) Pines, Moses Joseph, a member of the Montreal Hebrew Congregation died on 2 December 1779. His Hebrew name was Moshe Joseph bar Phineas Avraham bar Avraham bar Joseph Hacohen. File
2003-060/016(4) Herbert H. Franks File
2003-060/017(2) Records from National Archives Trust Fund Board File
2003-060/017(3) Records from National Archives Trust Fund Board File
2003-060/017(7) Affaires Maritimes File
2003-060/017(9) Affaires Maritimes, The Toronto File
2003-060/018(8) Collected Papers, Re: Moses Hart File