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The Chronicle of Solomon bar Simson rewrites the verse, claiming that it is the crusaders who slaughtered without pity, and that this is yet another reason God should intervene and avenge the Jews. Bar Simson makes this call again, using verses from two of the psalms quoted above: "השב לשכנינו שבעתים אל חיקם וגו'.". Reverend Gershom Mendes Seixas and many of the prominent Jewish families associated with the synagogue relocated to Connecticut, which was not under British rule.
Solomon and Sampson the elder were among those who left New York. Sampson the younger was born while the Simsons were residing in Connecticut. Sampson Simson studied at Columbia and is said to have been the first Jewish graduate of that college; at his graduation he delivered a Hebrew address which seems to have been written for him by Gershom Mendes Seixas. Then Simson became an attorney in New York, starting his training as confidential clerk to Aaron Burr.
In , after he had been severely injured in a nocturnal assault upon him, he retired to a farm in Yonkers, where he stayed for many years, observing Jewish dietary laws and other prescriptions, but isolating himself from all contact with New York and with his fellow — Jews. Grinstein, Jewish Publication Society of America]. It has been said that he was an eccentric person with utopian ideas. Perhaps his years of seclusion tended to make his ways peculiar.
His ideas were certainly novel and stimulating. Among them was his belief that Jewish societies should not lend their funds at interest to synagogues, as they were wont to do.
This view was, of course, based upon the Bible. Inline with his belief, he prohibited the North American Relief Society from lending its funds to any Jewish institution. When he died, in , he left three thousand dollars to Shearith Israel, two thousand dollars to the Beth Hamidrash, the very orthodox synagogue, and one thousand dollars to his alma mater, Columbia. To Amsel Leo, who had married his niece, he bequeathed a Sefer Torah perhaps the one which he had used while on his Yonkers farm.
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Sampson Simson, Eccentric Orthodox Philanthropist
Photo Credit:. Unless otherwise indicated all quotes are from Sampson Simson by Myer S. Solomon was partners with his brother Sampson Simson, whom we shall refer to as Sampson the elder. He was a remarkably pious and conscientious Jew, celebrated for his punctuality and strict honesty. His sister, Mrs. Rebecca Isaacks, with her two children Moses and Jochebed or Jessie constituted his family. Moses Isaacks was of very retiring disposition, being in wretched health and physically disqualified from active participation in affairs.
Jochebed married Rev. Simson survived his sister and her children. Myer S. Isaacs provides the following description of Sampson Simson:.