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1620 Mayflower brings Pilgrims to Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts    
1624   Jews in Brazil and Dutch attack on Portuguese and form a congregation  
1636 Roger Williams founds Rhode Island, the first colony to uphold religious freedom    
1648     Bogdan Chmelinitzki massacres one hundred thousand Jews in Poland
1654 Portuguese recapture Northern Brazil from the Dutch Ste. Catherine brings refugee Jews from Brazil to New Amsterdam  
1655   Dutch West India Company allows Jewish settlers to abide in New Netherland Oliver Cromwell's Whitehall Commission allows Jews to return to England
1664 British capture New Amsterdam, rename it New York    
1666     Self-proclaimed messiah Shabbetai Zevi is arrested by Turkish sultan
1670 John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina extends religious rights to Jews    
1678   Jews in Rhode Island purchase land for cemetery  
1681 William Penn receives North American land grant    
1697   Four Jews are made citizens of South Carolina  

    
 
 
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