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Docket Page of NY Surpreme Court - 07/01/1800 re: a suit by the brothers Judah, Benjamin 5. (1760- 1831)/ .Judah, Cary Jekuthiel (1766-1837) / Judah, Aaron (1775-1834) against John (?) At age 26, in 1786, Benjamin was a founder of the New York Tontine. A decade later, he was in London, where he spent several years establishing important connections on the continent for transatlantic trade. Nevertheless, he would suffer a significant reversal of fortune during the war of 1812. During the Revolution, Judah allied himself with the Patriot cause, removing from occupied New York to Philadelphia, where he joined Congregation Mikveh Israel. Upon his return to New York at the end of the war, he played important roles in the governance of Congregation Sherith Israel and in public life Judah married late in life to eighteen-year-old Eliza Israel, the daughter of a London contact, in 1803. He ultimately fathered ten children over the next twenty-four years, including playwright Samuel Benjamin Helbert Judah. When he died, at age seventy-one, his youngest child, George, was only three years old.

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