Subject: Family records

Manuscript record of the births of Solomon, Frances, and Simon Gratz, the first three children of Michael and Miriam Gratz. The births occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania between 1770 and 1773. The record is written in English and Yiddish and may have been a blank leaf from a bible.

This is a first edition of Isaac Leeser's *The Book of Daily Prayers*, published by C. Sherman in 1848. This particular copy contains extensive family records added by its owners, beginning with the marriage of Solomon Zucker (later Sugar) and Matilda Forchheimer on December 12, 1852, officiated by Reverend Gutheim, rabbi of the Congregation Sherith Israel in New Orleans. The book further documents the births of seven children born in Bastrop, Louisiana, between 1853 and 1867. Newspaper clippings record Solomon Sugar's death in 1884 and his son Isadore Sugar's death in 1919. The book passed through generations of the Sugar family, prominent Jewish merchants in Bastrop and Monroe, Louisiana.