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Near this site on July 11, 1733, five months after Oglethorpe founded Georgia, 42 Jewish colonists who had sailed from London disembarked from the William and Sarah. In colonial times, it was the largest group of Jews ever to sail on one vessel to North America. All but three of the families were Sephardic Jews originally from Portugal or Spain, and the other three families were Germanic.
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Savannah, Georgia · United States
