Bidspirit auction | (AMERICAN-JUDAICA). Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851).

(AMERICAN-JUDAICA). Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785-1851). Printed Document with manuscript additions, signed. A writ ordering Dieghton Brown to appear in court on January 3, 1822 as a witness to a suit. Noah, as Sheriff of the City and County of New York, signs. Two pages, folds. New York: December 1821 Noah was the most important Jewish lay leader in New York in the early 19th century and the first Jew born in the United States to reach national prominence.