Postage Stamp

Jacob Abraham Jesurun

1861

Postage stamp depicting ship and Portuguese lettering.
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Jacob Abraham Jesurun

The descendant of Portuguese Jews who emigrated from Holland to the Caribbean in the seventeenth century, Jacob Abraham Jesurun was a merchant in Curaçao, where his company owned several ships as well as a wharf, dockyard, and coal depot.

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