Hays, Moses Michael, 1739-1805

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(itoamc) Bankers
(itoamc) Insurance brokers
(itoamc) Merchants
(itoamc) Philanthropists

found: His No. [blank] By this policy of assurance, 1795:t.p. (M.M. Hays; insurance office in Boston)

found: OCLC, Sept. 14, 2016(access point: Hays, Moses M.; Hays, Moses Michael, 1739-1805)

found: Wikipedia, Sept. 14, 2016(Moses Michael Hays; banker, merchant, and philanthropist; Boston's most prominent 18th-century Jewish citizen; son of Dutch Jewish immigrants Judah Hays and Rebecca Michaels; joined and continued his father's shipping and retail business in N.Y.C.; moved to Newport, R.I., 1769, where he continued the shipping business; business reverses landed him in debtors' prison but he was set free when he liqidated assets and repaid creditors; re-established himself in the trans-Atlantic trade; moved to Boston, 1776, and opened a shipping office; among the first merchants to underwrite shipbuilding, trade and insurance to newly opened Far Eastern markets; founder and first depositor of the Massachusetts Bank; helped to establish the New England Masonic movement and served as Grand Master of the Massachusetts Lodge; b. 9 Mar. 1739, New York City; d. 9 May 1805; bur. at Colonial Jewish Burying Ground in Newport, R.I.)

found: America's Historical Newspapers, via WWW, Sept. 15, 2016:The Democrat, Boston, May 15, 1805 (M.M. Hays, Esq.; age 64; died in this town)