Grace Seixas Nathan

Grace Seixas Nathan was an American Jewish poet and a member of a prominent Western Sephardic family.

Biography

Grace Seixas was born on November 11, 1752, in Stratford, Connecticut. In 1780, she married Simon Nathan, a merchant and a supporter of the American Revolution. The couple had one son, Isaac Mendes.
Seixas Nathan died in New York on November 8, 1831. Her poetry was never published in her lifetime. In 1947, some of her correspondence was published by the American Jewish Historical Society.
She was the great-grandmother of poet Emma Lazarus.