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Francis Salvador was an amazing Patriot and gave his life for America, the first Jew to fall in the Revolution.
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The first professing Jew elected to public office in the American colonies…
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While the Declaration of Independence was being signed in Philadelphia, this brave Sephardic patriot from London was fighting on the Carolina frontier — and made the ultimate sacrifice.
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I’ve spent much of the past couple of months researching a remarkable young Sephardic Jew who gave his life in the Revolutionary War. He was not only the first Jew to die in the fight for American independence—he was so much more.
His name was Francis Salvador, and I hope you’ll remember it.
His father-in-law, Joseph Salvador, purchased over 200,000 acres in South Carolina in the 1770s to create a safe haven for Jews facing persecution in Europe.
Why South Carolina? Because the colony’s founding documents, authored by John Locke, explicitly welcomed Jewish settlers. Joseph Salvador also helped fund the voyage of 42 Jews aboard the ship William and Sarah, which sailed to Georgia in 1733. Many of them later made their way to South Carolina, fleeing the threat of Spanish invasion from Florida and drawn by the promise of freedom, opportunity, and a thriving Jewish community—especially in Charleston.
Francis Salvador himself became a trailblazer: he was the first practicing Jew elected to public office in the American colonies (and, at the time, in the broader British Empire). Before immigrating to South Carolina in 1773, he worshipped at the historic Bevis Marks Synagogue in London.
Remarkably, nearly 300 years later, the still-active synagogue preserves records of his bris (circumcision) and ketubah (marriage contract).
I read the synagogue’s history, published in 1902—it’s a fascinating account.
The story of the Sephardic Jews is one of extraordinary resilience: a thousand years in the diaspora, surviving the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal (where many practiced their faith in secret as crypto-Jews), fleeing to safer havens in Holland, then to England under Cromwell, and eventually to the New World.
Few people today know his name, but Francis Salvador deserves to be remembered as a patriot, pioneer, and symbol of Jewish contribution to America’s founding.
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