Moses d'Azevedo Naar, son of prominent New Jersey politician and journalist Judge David Naar and his wife Sarah, was a native of Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies. He emigrated from Saint Thomas as a child with his family and other relatives aboard the Brig Zelia, arriving in Philadelphia on 19 Jun 1834. His family eventually settled in Elizabethtown, Essex (later Elizabeth, Union), New Jersey before 1840. Moses married his first cousin Rebecca Naar, daughter of Abraham d'Azevedo Naar and Rachel Pretto, after 1850. They resided in Elizabeth. Moses died at age 32 at his parents' home in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey. He was interred in Mikveh Israel Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 14 Apr 1857.
Sources include passenger lists, census records (1840 Elizabethtown, 1850 Elizabeth), New Jersey and Pennsylvania death records, burial records, the Newark Daily Advertiser (Newark, NJ) 14 Apr 1857, the Centinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ) 21 Apr 1857, and the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Please note that while most records give his date of death as the 11th, his burial record suggests the 12th.
Sources include passenger lists, census records (1840 Elizabethtown, 1850 Elizabeth), New Jersey and Pennsylvania death records, burial records, the Newark Daily Advertiser (Newark, NJ) 14 Apr 1857, the Centinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ) 21 Apr 1857, and the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Please note that while most records give his date of death as the 11th, his burial record suggests the 12th.
Moses d'Azevedo Naar, son of prominent New Jersey politician and journalist Judge David Naar and his wife Sarah, was a native of Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies. He emigrated from Saint Thomas as a child with his family and other relatives aboard the Brig Zelia, arriving in Philadelphia on 19 Jun 1834. His family eventually settled in Elizabethtown, Essex (later Elizabeth, Union), New Jersey before 1840. Moses married his first cousin Rebecca Naar, daughter of Abraham d'Azevedo Naar and Rachel Pretto, after 1850. They resided in Elizabeth. Moses died at age 32 at his parents' home in Trenton, Mercer, New Jersey. He was interred in Mikveh Israel Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 14 Apr 1857.
Sources include passenger lists, census records (1840 Elizabethtown, 1850 Elizabeth), New Jersey and Pennsylvania death records, burial records, the Newark Daily Advertiser (Newark, NJ) 14 Apr 1857, the Centinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ) 21 Apr 1857, and the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Please note that while most records give his date of death as the 11th, his burial record suggests the 12th.
Sources include passenger lists, census records (1840 Elizabethtown, 1850 Elizabeth), New Jersey and Pennsylvania death records, burial records, the Newark Daily Advertiser (Newark, NJ) 14 Apr 1857, the Centinel of Freedom (Newark, NJ) 21 Apr 1857, and the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Please note that while most records give his date of death as the 11th, his burial record suggests the 12th.
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