(Canada). (Act of Parliament). A Bill (as amended on re-commitment) to Regulate the Celebration of Marriages in Newfoundland.

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).

6th June

(London)

1817

"Act not to affect Marriages already contracted, or the Quakers, or Persons professing the Jewish Religion.” For two earlier drafts of this Bill see Kestenbaum Sale 90, lot 92; and Kestenbaum Sale 92, lot 184. Newfoundland was one of the earliest European settlements in North America. It is believed that the first Jewish settler was an English Jew engaged in the fur trade, who came to Newfoundland around 1800. During the first half of the 19th-century, additional Jewish families settled in Newfoundland, primarily in the region of St. John's.