This alphabetic list was extracted from the Sephardic Jewish Registers PA334-978/979 "Registros dos
Despachos" (Registers of Dispatched Persons), Amsterdam Municipality Archives. The list covers the period 1759-1813 with
all the names of the poor Sephardic Jews who were granted
Sedaca (charity) - an amount in Dutch florins- against
the promise to leave Amsterdam and not to return within the next 15 years.
The following table shows the preferred destination countries of these 448 Sephardic families..
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Destination
|
No.
|
Suriname
|
141
|
Netherlands Antilles
|
90
|
UK
|
59
|
France
|
42
|
Germany
|
37
|
Italy
|
19
|
Jamaica
|
16
|