Aaron Lopez
b. Portugal, 1731
d. Smithfield, RI, May 27, 1782
Born 1731 in Portugal. Came to Newport after the great earthquake at Lisbon
in 1755.
Aaron and his nephew Moses owned 27 square-rigged vessels including whale-ships
and lost nearly all of them during the Revolutionary War.
Left Newport along with other Jews during the Revolution. He lived first
in Providence and then in Leicester, Massachusetts.
He died returning to Newport when watering his horse on Scott’s Pond in
Smithfield. His horse bolted into deeper water and he drowned May 27, 1782.
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