Jao de la Porta

Jao de la Porta

Jao de la Porta, along with his brother Morin, financed the first settlement by Europeans on Galveston Island in 1816. [http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/DD/fde78.html] Joa de la Porta was born in Portugal of Jewish parentage and later became a Jewish Texan trader. [http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/publications/texansoneandall/jewish.htm] In 1818, Jean Laffite appointed Jao supercargo for the Karankawa Indian trade. When Laffite left Galveston Island in 1820, Jao became a full-time trader. [http://beta.traveltex.com/tx_cul_je.asp?SN=1904746&LS=0]

ee also

*History of the Jews in Galveston, Texas


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