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Mendes, Abraham Pereira

 Person

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Aaron Lopez papers

 File — Box: Multi-Collection Box
Identifier: 003-02-24
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, bills and notes, and shipping receipts including for various provisions such as dry goods, preserved beef, women’s shoes, spermaceti candles and oil, rum and pitch. Of particular interest is a letter of apology to Lopez from his son-in-law, Abraham Pereira Mendes, that notes, “I have so inhumanly assaulted and cruely treated [Lopez}…past follies…being so numerous and heinous…” which followed a family disagreement between Mendes and Lopez....
Dates: 1756 - 1775