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on the lawn, the captain invited the family and part of the company to accom- 

 pany him on board the brigantine, and partake of a lunch prepared for the occa- 

 sion. All the family, together with the spies of the Inquisition, and a 'portion 

 of the guests, repaired on board the vessel ; and while they were below in the 

 cabin, enjoying the hospitality of the captain, the anchor was weighed, the 

 sails unfurled, and the wind being fair, the brigantine shot out of the Tagus, 

 was soon at sea, and carried the whole party to England. It had been pre- 

 viously arranged between the doctor and the captain, who had agreed, for a 

 thousand moidores in gold, to convey the family to England, and who were 

 under the painful necessity of adopting this plan of escape to avoid detection. 

 The ladies had secreted all their diamonds and jewels, which were quilted in 

 their dresses, and the doctor having previously changed all his securities into 

 gold, it was distributed among the gentlemen of the family, and carried around 

 them in leathern belts. His house, plate, furniture, servants, equipage, and 

 even the dinner cooked for the occasion, were all left, and were subsequently 

 seized by the Inquisition and confiscated to the State. 



On the arrival of Doctor Nunez and family in London, th6 settlement of 

 Georgia, and the fine climate and soil of that country, were the subjects of much 

 speculation. The celebrated John Wesley, and his brother Charles, had re- 

 solved to embrace the occasion of visiting this El Dorado ; and when the ship 

 which conveyed Governor Oglethorpe to that new settlement was about sail- 

 ing, the doctor and his whole family embarked as passengers, not one of whom 

 could speak the English language ; and from them the families have descended, 

 already named in the body of this work After a few years, a number 

 sailed for New- York ; and Zipra Nunez married the Rev. David Machado, 

 Minister of the Hebrew congregation of that city. Major Noah states that he 

 remembers his great-grandmother, Zipra Nunez, as a very remarkable person- 

 age. She died at nearly ninety years of age, and was celebrated for her 

 beauty and accomplishments. She spoke several languages — preserved to 

 the last a beautiful set of teeth, unimpaired, and was observed, whenever the 

 clock struck, to repeat a silent prayer, which had some reference to her impri- 

 sonment in the Inquisition. The whole family were rigid in their attachment 

 to the doctrines of their faith. Two of her brothers, who arrived in the same 

 vessel from London, lie buried in the Jewish cemetery in Chatham Square, 

 New- York ; and from them has sprung a long list of highly respectable 

 descendants in Savannah, Charleston, Philadelphia, and New-York, all of 

 them of the Hebrew persuasion at this day. 



