Family: Jacob DE LOUZADA / Rachel DE ALMERDA (F3952)
m. 1698-
Father | Male
Jacob DE LOUZADA
Born CA 1670 Spain 
Died 12 Jun 1729 New York City, NY Buried Third Cemetery of Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel, 21st Street, Manhattan, NY Married 1698 [1] London, England [1] Father Mother
Mother | Female
Rachel DE ALMERDA
Born CA 1675 Spain Died 1708 London, England Buried Father Abraham DE ALMERDA | F3953 Group Sheet Mother Sarah ___ | F3953 Group Sheet
Child 1 | Male
+ Aaron LOUZADA
Born 17 May 1695 London, England Died 27 Dec 1764 Bound Brook, Somerset Co, NJ Buried Third Cemetery of Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel, 21st Street, Manhattan, NY Spouse Unknown | F3940 Married New Jersey Spouse Bloeme MICHAEL | F3951 Married CA 1740 New Jersey
Child 2 | Male
+ Moses LOUSADA
Born 2 Feb 1701 London, England Died 11 Sep 1750 New Jersey Buried Spouse Hannah ___ | F35032 Married
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Notes - The De Louzada family were Sephardic Jews. During the Spanish Inquisition, Jews were forced to become practicing Catholics, or else be burned at the stake or escape to another country. The Jews who joined the Catholic Church were called "conversos." Many of these conversos remained secret Jews and were called "marranos," literally "pigs" in Spanish. Jacob De Louzada was probably such a secret Jew, since he and Rachel remarried in a Synagogue when they had an opportunity. Jacob and Rachel had fled from Spain to Portugal and then to England.
After the death of Rachel in 1708, Jacob and his two sons, Aaron and Moses, emigrated in 1710 to America where Jacob became a wealthy chocolate merchant in New York. Jacob was buried in the Chatham Square Burial Grounds in New York City, but his body was reinterred on June 9, 1856 at the Third Cemetery of Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue Shearith Israel (also known as the 21st Street Burial Grounds) to accommodate mercantile growth in the city. Jacob's gravestone is inscribed in Hebrew.
https://archive.org/stream/calendarofnewjer03newj/calendarofnewjer03newj_djvu.txt
https://books.google.com/books?id=4eoeBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA100&dq=louzada%20in%20colonial%20new%20brunswick&pg=PA100#v=onepage&q=louzada%20in%20colonial%20new%20brunswick&f=false
The Colonial and Early National Period 1654-1840: American Jewish History
https://books.google.com/books?id=rrHKAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA103&ots=gEyyZ2-1wW&dq=louzada%20in%20colonial%20new%20brunswick&pg=PA103#v=onepage&q=louzada%20in%20colonial%20new%20brunswick&f=false
https://blog.ice.edu/2016/08/19/in-search-of-chocolate-in-old-nyc/ [1, 2]
Married:
- This was actually a remarriage at the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in London. Jacob and Rachel were earlier married in Spain without the Jewish rites.
- The De Louzada family were Sephardic Jews. During the Spanish Inquisition, Jews were forced to become practicing Catholics, or else be burned at the stake or escape to another country. The Jews who joined the Catholic Church were called "conversos." Many of these conversos remained secret Jews and were called "marranos," literally "pigs" in Spanish. Jacob De Louzada was probably such a secret Jew, since he and Rachel remarried in a Synagogue when they had an opportunity. Jacob and Rachel had fled from Spain to Portugal and then to England.
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Sources - [S2615] The Descendants of Jacob de Louzada, Don Norman, 41991 Emerson Court, Elyria, OH 44035, (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcpd/norman/LUZADER/jacob.htm).
- [S1968] Lewis County West Virginia: Her People and Places, Joy Gilchrist Stalnaker (editor), (Hackers Creek Pioneers Descendants, Horner, WV 26372 (2000)), pp. 136-137.
- [S2615] The Descendants of Jacob de Louzada, Don Norman, 41991 Emerson Court, Elyria, OH 44035, (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcpd/norman/LUZADER/jacob.htm).