Francisco de Sequeira Machado /
Abraham de Sequeira Machado
Rio de Janeiro c. 1666 – London a. 1747
Itinerary
Rio de Janeiro – Lisbon – London (c. 1731)
Family
Father of José de Sequeira Machado / José Henriques Sequeira.
1st marriage: Leonor Henriques. 2nd marriage: Catarina de Miranda / Sarah de Sequeira Machado.
Second cousin of Simão Lopes Samuda / Isaac de Sequeira Samuda.
Inquisition
ANTT, Inquisition of Lisbon, trial 1892.
Arrested on 30 October 1708. Auto da Fé on 30 July 1709.
Congregation
Ketubah on 4 March 1731. Witness: Daniel de Flores (LMA/4521/A/02/03/005: 62).
Doctor of the Sedaca since 1735 (see here the contract).
Other information
Physician.
Bibliography
SAMUEL 2011.
Genealogy
José de Sequeira Machado /
José Henriques Sequeira
Rio de Janeiro c. 1695 – London 1747
Itinerary
Rio de Janeiro – Lisbon – Goa – Bahia – London (c. 1744)
Family
Son of Francisco de Sequeira Machado / Abraham de Sequeira and Leonor Henriques.
Married to Catarina Rosa / Leah Rosa de Sequeira
Inquisition
ANTT, Inquisition of Lisbon, trial 5277.
Arrested on 11 October 1712. Auto da Fé on 9 July 1713.
Congregation
Ketubah on 29 April 1744. Witness: Daniel de Flores (LMA/4521/A/02/03/006: 4).
Other information
Physician.
In 1739, he was the head physician of the viceroy of Portuguese India, according to the dedication his brother John de Sequeira did to him in his M. D. thesis.
Burial
Beth Haim Novo, 16 April 1747 (RODRIGUES-PEREIRA & LOWE 1997: 17).
Will
March 31, 1747. Executors: widow Catarina Rosa / Leah de Sequeira, Jacob Álvares Corcho, Daniel Mendes Seixas and Isaac Cohen Delmonte. Witnesses: Joseph Vaz da Silva, Isaac Lusitano de Pina and Isaac de Castro. Proved on 13 April 1747 (PROB 11/753/495) (pdf).
Bibliography
SAMUEL 2011.
Genealogy
Francisco Correia da Silva /
Isaac Henriques Sequeira
Lisbon 1738 – London 1816
Itinerary
Lisbon – Bordeaux – Leyden – London (b. 1759)
Family
Son of Jerónimo Henriques Sequeira, a physician, and Jerónima Bernarda Joaquina.
Married to Esther, Diogo Lopes Pereira / Diogo de Aguilar‘s daughter.
Nephew of José de Sequeira Machado/José Henriques Sequeira.
Congregation
Assistant doctor of the Sedaka since 1759.
Doctor of the Hebra since 1772.
Other information
Student at the Universities of Bordeaux and Leyden, where he took his MD.
25 March 1771: Admitted to the Royal College of Physicians.
Physician of the Portuguese Ambassador since 1774.
Honorary Physician Extraordinary to the Prince Regent of Portugal.
Freemason.
Portrait painted by Thomas Gainsborough (Museo del Prado).
Residence
Fenchurch Street, London.
Will
December 11, 1816 (PROB 11/1587/125).
Bibliography
HYAMSON 1951: 213-214; BARNETT 1978: 111-112.
Genealogy
Simão Lopes Samuda /
Isaac de Sequeira Samuda
Lisbon c. 1681 – London 1729
Itinerary
Lisbon – Coimbra (1696-1702) – Lisbon (1702-1708/9) – London (since 1708/9)
Family
Son of Rodrigo Machado de Sequeira and Violante Nunes Rosa.
Brother of Gaspar de Almeida / Abraham de Almeida Sequeira (d. London 1711).
Second cousin of Francisco de Sequeira Machado / Abraham de Sequeira Machado.
Inquisition
ANTT, Inquisition of Lisbon, trial 2784.
Arrested on 23 August 1703. Auto da fé on 21 October 1704.
Congregation
The witness of the ketubah of Eliau Lindo and Rachel, David Lopes Ferreira‘s daughter, on 2 February 1709 (LMA/4521/A/02/03/002: 104).
Payment of the finta since 1711.
Business
1714-1723: Holder of Bank of England stock (GIUSEPPI 1962: 162).
Other information
1702: Graduated at the University of Coimbra.
1721: Admitted to the Royal College of Physicians.
1723: Fellow of the Royal Society.
Since 1724: Physician of António Galvão de Castelo Branco, the Portuguese envoy extraordinary in London.
Residence
1703: Beco das Comédias, Lisbon.
c. 1720: Bishopsgate, London.
Burial
Bet Haim Velho, 20 November 1729 (BARNET 1962: 26).
Works
Sermam funebre pera as exequias dos trinta Dias do insigne, eminente e pio Haham e Doutor R. David Netto (London, 1728).
Several contributions in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
“Viriadas”: epic poem completed by Jacob de Castro Sarmento, unedited until 2014 (Edition and introduction by Manuel Curado, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra).
More bibliography
Augusto d’Esaguy. “Breve notícia sôbre o médico português Isaac de Sequeira Samuda.” O Instituto 87-3 (1934): 262-269; Carla da Costa Vieira. “Observing the skies of Lisbon. Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, an Estrangeirado in the Royal Society.” Notes & Records of the Royal Society 68 (2014): 135-149; Edgar Samuel. “Samuda, Isaac [Ishac] de Sequeira [formerly Simão Lopes Samuda].” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Available online: http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/71570.
Genealogy
Manuel Henriques de Leão
b. Lisbon c. 1717
Itinerary
Lisbon – London (1756) – Lisbon (since 1757)
Family
Married to Beatriz Josefa
Cousin of Simão Lopes Samuda / Isaac de Sequeira Samuda.
Inquisition
ANTT, Inquisition of Lisbon, trial 1136.
Presented before the tribunal on 24 November 1734. The sentence in 1739.
After a time in London, he returned to Portugal and he presented himself before the Inquisition on 15 March 1758. Sentence on 14 April 1758 (see here extracts from his trial).
Genealogy
Henrique de Castro /
Jacob de Castro Sarmento
Bragança c. 1691 – London 1762
Itinerary
Brangança – Coimbra (1711-1717) – Beja – Lisbon – London (since 1721)
Family
Son of Francisco de Castro Almeida and Violante de Mesquita.
Married to Isabel Henriques / Rachel de Castro, Simão Lopes Samuda / Isaac de Sequeira Samuda‘s cousin. Second marriage in 1758 with an Anglican woman, Elizabeth.
Congregation
1724: Doctor of the Hebra (dismissed some months after).
1747: Founder and physician of the Bet Holim Hospital.
1758: Rupture with the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation of London.
Other information
1717: Graduated at the University of Coimbra.
1725: Admitted to the Royal College of Physicians.
1730: Fellow of the Royal Society.
Since 1730: Physician of the Portuguese diplomatic representation in London.
1739: Doctorate at Aberdeen University.
Residence
Fenchurch Street, St. Catherine Coleman, London.
King’s Road, Holborn, London.
Will
November 11, 1759 (PROB 11/879/368). Executors and heirs: his widow Elizabeth Castro Sarmento and his sons Henry and Charles Castro Sarmento. Witnesses: Nicholas Coulthurst, Matthew Coulthurst and J. Gordon (pdf).
Burial
St. Andrew Cemetery, 20 September 1762.
Works
A Dissertation on the method of inoculating the Smallpox with critical remarks on the several authors who have treated of this disease (London, 1721)
Dissertationes in Novam ac Utilem Methodum/Inoculationis, seu Transplantationis Variolarum Prima Methodus Autorictate Regia Majestatis Britannicae Comprobata 28. Julii 1721 (London, 1722)
Exemplar de penitencia, dividido em tres discursos predicaveis para o dia sancto de Kipur, dedicados ao grande e omnipotente Deus de Israel (London, 1724)
“Extraordinaria providencia que el grande Dios de Israel usó con su escogido pueblo em tiempo de su mayor afflicion, por medio de Mior Mordehay y Ester, contra los protervos intentos del tyrano Aman” (1724). Probably unpublished.
Siderohydrologia: Ou Discurso Practico Das Agoas Mineraes Espadanas ou Chalybeadas; Em que se mostra Sua Natureza, Composição, Methodo de as beber, e os achaques em que são Convenientes (London, 1726)
Sermão funebre ás deploraveis memorias do mui reverendo e doctissimo Haham Asalem Morenu A. R. O doutor David Netto, insigne theologo, eminente prégador, e cabeça da congregação de Sahar Hassamaym (London, 1728)
Propoziçoens Para Imprimir, As/Obras Philosophicas De Francisco Baconio, Baram de Verulam… (London, 1731)
“Nova Descripçam do Globo, Ou Exacta Medida dos Imperios, Reynos, Territorios, Estados Principaes, Provincias, Condados e Ilhas de todo o Mundo” (1731). Unpublished.
Materia Medica, Physico-Historico-Mechanica, Reyno Mineral…. (London, 1735)
Theorica verdadeira das marés, conforme a philosophia do incomparavel cavaleiro Isaac Newton (London, 1737)
“Chronologia Newtoniana Epitomizada. Cronica Breve desde a Primeira Memoria das Couzas na Europa até a Conquista da Pérsia por Alexandre Magno. Traduzida do inglez por Jacob de Castro Sarmento”. Unpublished.
Relaçam de alguns experimentos e observações feitas sobre as medicinas de Madame Stephens para dissolver a pedra (London, 1742)
Tratado das operações de cirurgia, com as figuras e descripção dos instrumentos de que n’ella se faz uso, e uma introducção sobre a natureza e methodo de tractar as feridas, abcessos e chagas… (London, 1746)
Pharmacopeia Contracta in usum nosocomii ad pauperes e gente lusitanica curando nuper istituti (London, 1749): with Philip de la Cour, alias Abraham Gomes Ergas
Appendix ao que se acha escripto na Materia-medica do doutor Jacob de Castro Sarmento, sobre a natureza, contentos, effeitos, e uso das aguas das Caldas da Rainha…. (London, 1753)
Do uso e abuso das minhas aguas de Inglaterra, ou directorio e instrucção para se saber seguramente quando se deve, ou não, usar d’ellas… (London, 1756)
Materia Medica Physico-Hystorico-Mechanica…. Ediçam nova, corrigida, e repurgada, a que se accrescentam por continuaçam desta Obra, para fazela Completa, Os Reynos Vegetavel, e Animal Parte II (London, 1758)
“Viriadas”: with Isaac de Sequeira Samuda, unedited until 2014 (Edition and introduction by Manuel Curado, Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra).
Bibliography
Augusto Isaac de d’Esaguy. Jacob de Castro Sarmento. Notas relativas à sua vida e à sua obra (Lisboa: Edições Ática, 1946).
Joaquim de Carvalho. “Jacob de Castro Sarmento et l’introduction des conceptions de Newton en Portugal.” Actes, Conferences et Comunications. IIIe Congrés International d’Histoire des Sciences (Lisboa: Tipografia da Seara Nova, 1936): 95-98.
Barnett 1982: 84-114.
Matt Goldish. “Newtonian, Converso and Deist: the Lives of Jacob (Henrique) de Castro Sarmento.” Science in Context 10-4 (Winter 1997): 651-675.
Ronnie Perelis. “Marranism, Masking and the Traffic in Enlightenment thought: a historical contextualization and analysis of Dr. Jacob de Castro Sarmento’s Exemplar de Penitençia.” Proceedings on the Twenth British Conference on Judeo-Spanish Studies (2001). Sephardic Language, Literature and History (Leiden: Brill, 2004): 109-118.
José Pedro Sousa Dias. “Jacob de Castro Sarmento e a sua fuga para Londres em 1721.” Cadernos de Estudos Sefarditas 5 (2005): 53-61.
António Júlio Andrade e Maria Fernanda Guimarães. Jacob de Castro Sarmento (Lisboa: Vega, 2010).
Hélio de Jesus Ferreira de Oliveira Pinto. Jacob de Castro Sarmento e o Conhecimento Médico e Científico do século XVIII. PhD dissertation. Unpublished (Lisboa: 2015)
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