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Letter - From Richard Lee (04/07/1786), addressed to concerns a loan between Richard Lee and Joseph Simon. Bernard Gratz is listed as a witness and also discussed on the reverse. The document discusses a bill between Simon and Lee that dated 1776. Concerning the connection between Richard Lee and Joseph Simon, in The Papers of John Marshall - Volume 2 - Page 88 we find the following; Joseph Simon v . Richard Lee was a debt action on appeal from Westmoreland County . It had been transferred from the General Court to the District Court at Northumberland County after the reorganization of the courts , and judgment had been confessed in Sept. 1789. District Court Order Book , 1789-1793 Joseph Simon was the leader of the Jewish community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during the eighteenth century. Barnard Gratz emigrated to the United States in 1754. For a time he was engaged in the counting-house of David Franks, but subsequently he entered into partnership with his brother Michael, trading with the Indians and supplying the government with Indian goods. On Oct. 11, 1763, he became a naturalized British subject. He was one of the merchants who signed the Non-Importation Resolutions adopted Oct. 25, 1765. After the outbreak of the Revolutionary war he took the oath of allegiance to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Nov. 6, 1777). Gratz was also one of the signers of a petition presented to the government in 1783 for the abolition of an objectionable oath of office. About the time of the outbreak of the American Revolution he was appointed parnas of an unorganized congregation of Philadelphia Jews, which was ultimately known as the Congregation Mickve Israel

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