Note 3 — LA VIRGEN DEL ROSARIO Y EL SANTO CRISTO DE BUEN VIAGE.

Samson or Sampson Simson, d. 1773, son of Rabbi Joseph Simson and uncle of that Samson Simson who founded the Mt. Sinai Hospital, was the chief Jewish merchant in New York, owner of several privateers, and later one of the founders of the Chamber of Commerce. At this time he was parnas residente (president) of the Congregation Shearith Israel, till 1825 the one Jewish congregation in New York. Publications of the American Jewish Hist. Soc., II. 83, III. 81, X. 109-117, XI. 155, XXI. 74, XXV. 90. Dr. Benjamin Kennicott, in The Ten Annual Accounts of the Collation of Hebrew MSS. of the Old Testament (Oxford, 1770), p. 161, mentions information from President Cooper in New York "that Mr. Sampson Simson, a very worthy and benevolent old Gentleman, of the Jewish persuasion, living in that city, is in possession of a MS. of very great antiquity, containing the whole Hebrew Bible"—on which see Ezra Stiles, Literary Diary, III. 3, 32.