tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post1827758374449467129..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: Dr. Benjamin Rush Goes to a Jewish WeddingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-7893831728562462262013-09-11T09:52:08.646-05:002013-09-11T09:52:08.646-05:00"my attention was directed ... to the freedom..."my attention was directed ... to the freedom with which some of them conversed with each other during the whole time of this part of their worship."<br /><br />Oy. Some things never changed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-2136217290577821372013-07-22T10:36:14.041-05:002013-07-22T10:36:14.041-05:00Yes, the 1934 was a typo. Uriah passed the propert...Yes, the 1934 was a typo. Uriah passed the property to a nephew, a grandson of the couple in this marriage. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-89158718676568568832013-07-22T09:02:04.207-05:002013-07-22T09:02:04.207-05:00I think G. Lovely must have mistyped. Flogging in ...I think G. Lovely must have mistyped. Flogging in the USN was ended in 1850. see: http://www.navalhistory.org/2010/09/28/flogging-outlawed-160-years-ago-today<br /><br />Uriah P. Levy must have bought Monticello in 1834, then?RFullernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-72496147462387959652013-07-20T18:32:50.151-05:002013-07-20T18:32:50.151-05:00Don't worry about the typo; that particular on...Don't worry about the typo; that particular one happens a lot because "Curtis" is so much more common than "Custis." I often have to search for misspelled names in eighteenth-century sources because spelling was more casual then and often phonetic. Now our errors are based on mistyping and get repeated on the internet! <br /><br />(This might be on my mind more because of the postings I've been researching for tomorrow, both of which involved names with alternate spellings.)J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-45262727277559803722013-07-20T15:10:25.378-05:002013-07-20T15:10:25.378-05:00PS: Sorry about the Curtis/Custis.
My typing mist...PS: Sorry about the Curtis/Custis. <br />My typing mistake!merykahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11516637012694980614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-75344767651247738882013-07-20T15:09:31.429-05:002013-07-20T15:09:31.429-05:00Thank you so much for looking into this. I haven&#...Thank you so much for looking into this. I haven't found anything yet about veils...just that something called a "wedding hat" was popular in 1770s England. merykahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11516637012694980614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-56292304676343293872013-07-19T11:49:16.067-05:002013-07-19T11:49:16.067-05:00General references book say that bridal veils were...General references book say that bridal veils were out of fashion in eighteenth-century Britain, and thus probably in upper-class America as well. That would have made this wedding in Philadelphia and Nelly Custis’s wedding in 1799 notable, but I’m still looking for a reliable description of the latter. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-28149505688488820632013-07-19T11:40:38.121-05:002013-07-19T11:40:38.121-05:00Martha Washington’s children and (some) grandchild...Martha Washington’s children and (some) grandchildren had the surname Custis, which is often mistyped as Curtis. I found the story about Lawrence Lewis, Eleanor Parke (Nelly) Custis, and the veil on many websites and recent books, but my quick look didn’t unearth descriptions from before the 20th century or quotations from primary sources. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-63162141202832668172013-07-19T11:20:17.078-05:002013-07-19T11:20:17.078-05:00Thanks you for this very interesting post!
It is ...Thanks you for this very interesting post!<br /><br />It is said that the custom of the wedding veil became popular in America in 1799 when Nelly Curtis, Martha Washington's granddaughter, was viewed by her fiancée through a lace curtain. He remarked upon her beauty. Is there any evidence of wedding veils in America by a non-Jewish bride before this time? <br />Thanks.<br />merykahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11516637012694980614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-31165306012304063742013-07-18T22:03:28.299-05:002013-07-18T22:03:28.299-05:00It's interesting to read an outsider's acc...It's interesting to read an outsider's account. I suspect that the 20 minutes of prayer before the ceremony was the rabbi and the men grabbing an opportunity for a minyan (quorum) to say daily prayers together, and was not an actual part of the wedding ceremony itself. But Robert Paul is correct, it's remarkable how familiar it all sounds.Sharon/www.sharonburnston.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-42256053870014281082013-07-18T14:28:29.211-05:002013-07-18T14:28:29.211-05:00Last week I happened to attend a wedding at the Na...Last week I happened to attend a wedding at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, home to the Uriah P. Levy Center and Chapel, named for the first Jewish Commodore in the U.S. Navy, and the third child of the couple who's wedding Rush describes. It was Uriah who in 1934 bought Monticello and saved it from ruin, and he was also instrumental in ending the practice of flogging in the U. S. Navy.G. Lovelynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-14667522336927180892013-07-18T08:51:56.311-05:002013-07-18T08:51:56.311-05:00Pretty amazing how little any of that has changed....Pretty amazing how little any of that has changed. My own wedding was not that different.<br /><br />But then, like Tevye says, "Tradition!"Robert S. Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06208771657848284055noreply@blogger.com