1695 Donations for the New Hospital in Suriname

BACKGROUND

This is a list of Jews who donated money to the founding of new hospital in Paramaribo, Suriname in 1695. The Governor of Suriname invited residents to assist in subscribing to pay for the work. This list was reproduced by J.S. Roos in the article "Additional Notes on the History of the Jews in Surinam"� and was published in the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, No.13 (1905) pp 127-136. Suriname was a colony based on agricultural plantations and it is significant that all the pledges toward the hospital were made in terms of pounds of sugar to be donated.

DATABASE

This database includes 65 Jews that donated sugar toward the founding of the hospital in 1695.

The fields in the database are:

• Surname
• Given name
• Contribution
• Comments

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The information contained in this database was transcribed by the late genealogist Kevin Martin. He was a person who dedicated his life to family history research, and in particular, Sephardic Jewry. Ironically, he was not a fan of databases and instead preferred to find the original sources and transcribe the contents into his own lists and Excel spreadsheets. It was through his friendship with JewishGen volunteer Eric Feinstein that he donated this file to JewishGen. May the memory of Kevin Martin be for a blessing.

June 2025