(AMERICA)

AUCTION 32 |
Thursday, March 23rd,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art
Lot 198
(AMERICA)
v.p: v.d
Est: $700 - $900
PRICE REALIZED $650
Aaron Levy, born in Amsterdam in 1742, emigrated to America about 1760. He soon became a thriving merchant in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Active as a land agent, he established the town of Aaronsburg, Pennsylvania. During the Revolutionary War, Levy furnished supplies to the American troops and loaned money to the Continental Congress. Married to Rachel Phillips, Aaron Levy died in Philadelphia on January 23rd, 1815. See Rosenbloom, A Biographical Dictionary of Early American Jews (1960), p. 87.
The present document records the legal transfer of “Ten Lots or Pieces of Ground Situate[d] in Town of Aaronsburgh in Penns. Valley in the County of Northumberland”