CHAPTER XIII

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THE DECLINE OF NEWPORT; WASHINGTON AND THE JEWS.

England’s special enmity to Newport caused the dispersion of its Jewish congregation――The General Assembly of Rhode Island meets in the historic Newport Synagogue――Moses Seixas’ address to Washington on behalf of the Jews of Newport and the latter’s reply――Washington’s letters to the Hebrew Congregations of Savannah, Ga., and to the congregations of Philadelphia, New York, Richmond and Charleston.

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