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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 23., The Touro house and its owner. (search)
learn that among other legacies, he has bequeathed 10,000 dollars to the General Hospital and 15,000 to the synagogue at Newport, at which place his body will be interred. So it appears that his offer of his noble horse to Lafayette for a triump he gave $10,000; also he gave to the Legislature of Rhode Island the sum of $10,000 for the support of the Synagogue in Newport, and to the Massachusetts General Hospital he gave $10,000. This sum fairly took the breath away of this last organizatikill. If he could have had it perhaps his life could have been saved. Mr. Touro also remembered the town government of Newport with the sum of $10,000 for the repairing and the preserving of the street from the Jewish Burying Ground to Main streetcontributed largely to success in the erection of Bunker Hill monument. The Touros sleep in the Jewish cemetery at Newport, R. I. Doubtless the inscription on Judah's tablet may be well applied to Abraham of Medford, By righteousness and integ