Record #:

3851

Author(s):

LeCount, Sarah

Abstract:

Few Jewish people were in the state when Jacob Mordecai came to Warrenton in 1792. He was a merchant, and in 1808, opened a girls' academy for all faiths. Because of the small Jewish population, only two of his thirteen children married in the faith; and several became Christians.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 37 Issue 2, Spring 1998, p20, por

Subject(s):

Mordecai family; Jews--Warrenton