João Fonseca de Recife

aka John Fonseca, Captain Joao Fonseca Vila Boas, Jacob Aboab Fonseca, Joao Baptista de Fonseca. Joao (Jacob) was the eldest son of Rabbi Isaac Aboab de Fonseca by his first wife Esther Querido. As a teenager he went to live with his Fonseca relatives in Lisbon where he became a merchant trader. He settled in Brazil as a wealthy sugar plantation owner in Pernambuco (Recife) in Brazil with his relative Balthasar Fonseca when he was about 20 years old under the Dutch. His father joined the settlement in 1642. After the end of the colony around 1656 he moved with his father back to Amsterdam and then moved to London as a merchant trader. He had at least three sons with his wife Sarah Querido (his first cousin): Isaac, Moses and Abraham de Fonseca.