Was your Mayflower ancestor Jewish?  Muslim? In a shot across the bow of Mayflower genealogies, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman and Donald N. Yates' Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America (McFarland, 2007) postulated that many of the initial colonists were actually of Sephardic Jewish and Muslim Moorish ancestry.  This comprehensive index allows you to check the book's historical writings, ship manifests, wills, land grants, DNA test results, family trees and settler lists providing for the first time the Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic and Jewish origins of more than 5,000 surnames.

Index to Jews and Muslims in British Colonial America [Kindle edition] $3.95 (Free to Amazon Prime members)


Sample listing from the letter J

Jarvis  67

Jasper  106

Jay  91, 103;  John 184

Jeanneret  168

Jeansack  168

Jefferson, Thomas  73, 106, 181

Jeffries  67

Jekabs  87

Jemboy  51

Jemima  128, 139

Jenkinson  125

Jerald  67

Jewish Publication Society  186

Jews:  anti-Catholicism  64-65, 184; Ashkenazi  38, 43, 68, 92-93, 100, 112-3, 143, 164, 166, 189; Caribbean  40-42; diaspora of 14, 45-46, 98, 128-29, 184, 189;  Dutch  83-85, 100, 125, 179; Egyptian  128-29, 175-76; expulsions 7-9, 13, 21, 45-46, 69, 64, 84, 140-41, 189; in finance 9, 11, 21, 23, 51, 72, 91, 103, 160, 165, 174, 186; in Freemasonry 173-89; French 25, 54, 100, 140-41, 189; in London 141, 159, 164; naming practices 3, 66, 68, 77, 91, 113-14, 116, 128, 142, 174, 191-200; as merchants 1-2, 9, 39, 55-57, 64, 72, 85-91, 98; Moroccan 13; numbers 26, 44, 141, 148; occupations  41, 52, 63, 90-91, 108-9, 118, 171, 174; as physicians  41, 135, 154, 178; rituals 68, 86, 91, 111, 174, 177-78, 201-2; Roman 26, 91, 141; secularization, 132; Semitic  38; Sephardic 25-27, 39-40, 43, 46, 64, 68, 128-29, 164, 166-67, 189, 192-200

Jimenez  34

Jirael  117

Joachime  90

Joder  see  Yoder

Johnson  43, 115, 168, 169

Johnson, Ben  180

Johnston  51, 96

Jones  51, 124; George F. 166; Inigo 178

Jordan  53

Josephus  41

Jouet  143

Jouneau  142

Journal of Cherokee Studies  163

Journee  89

Jubel  175

Judah  124, 126

Judd  117

Judea  116

Judith  72, 142, 177, 178

Juiman  54

Juliana  135

Jump  125

Juneau  97

Junia  67