1743 CE: ABRAHAM ALEXANDER

(Jewish) Revolutionary War officer and the first secretary general of the Masonic supreme council in Charleston. He married one of the first Jewish converts in the United States, Ann Sarah Huguenin Irby. He served as a hazzan in the local congregation, hand-wrote a High Holiday prayer book, and also worked as an auditor for the United States Customs Service.
– Eli Birnbaum