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About Grace Levy
In 1718, Abigail Levy Franks’s father, Moses Raphael Levy, who was widowed in 1716, married Grace Mears, with whom he had seven children. Abigail despised her stepmother and spared no insult in her prose. But Grace Levy was left a widow with many young children (Moses Levy died 10 days after her youngest child was born in 1728). After a bad remarriage to David Hays in 1735, Abigail’s assessments of her shifted. Through Abigail’s letters a rare portrait of a widowed colonial Jewish woman emerges—of Grace Mears Levy Hays as female shopkeeper who single-handedly supported and raised her young family, survived a deeply unhappy second marriage, and died brokenhearted, too young, and finally admired by her oldest stepdaughter. Grace Mears Levy was active in establishing the Jewish community in NY, as was her husband, and they were contributors to the first synagogue on Mill St., in the area commonly referred to today as Wall Street.
In 1718, Abigail Levy Franks’s father, Moses Raphael Levy, who was widowed in 1716, married Grace Mears, with whom he had seven children. Abigail despised her stepmother and spared no insult in her prose. But Grace Levy was left a widow with many young children (Moses Levy died 10 days after her youngest child was born in 1728). After a bad remarriage to David Hays in 1735, Abigail’s assessments of her shifted. Through Abigail’s letters a rare portrait of a widowed colonial Jewish woman emerges—of Grace Mears Levy Hays as female shopkeeper who single-handedly supported and raised her young family, survived a deeply unhappy second marriage, and died brokenhearted, too young, and finally admired by her oldest stepdaughter. Grace Mears Levy was active in establishing the Jewish community in NY, as was her husband, and they were contributors to the first synagogue on Mill St., in the area commonly referred to today as Wall Street.
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Feb 1 2021, 9:09:59 UTC
- Residence: United States - Between 1694 and 1740
- Residence: United States - 1728
- Residence: United States - 1735-1739,1741-1747,1755,1757,1761-1772
- Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Feb 1 2021, 9:40:58 UTC
"Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLZ-KPJH : 17 July 2020), Grace Mears Hays, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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Grace Levy's Timeline
| 1694 |
1694
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Spanish Town, St Catherine Parish, Jamaica, Caribbean, Spanish Town, St Catherine Parish, Jamaica
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| 1719 |
February 27, 1719
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London, United Kingdom
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| 1720 |
February 11, 1720
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New York, New York, United States
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April 30, 1720
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Colonial America
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| 1721 |
February 28, 1721
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New York, New York, NY, United States
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| 1722 |
August 19, 1722
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New York, New York, USA
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| 1723 |
September 22, 1723
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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| 1725 |
1725
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Fernholz, Hanover, Germany, Hanover, NDS, Germany
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| 1726 |
September 5, 1726
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New York, NY, United States
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