The Representation and Solicitation of the good People of the Hebrew Society in the City of Philadelphia commonly call’d Israelites.

Whereas the religious Order of Men in this City denominated Israelites were without any Synagogue or House of Worship untill the Year 1780 when desirous of accomodating themselves, and encouraged thereto by a number of respectable & worthy bretheren of the hebrew Society then in this Place (who generously contributed to the Design) they purchased a Lot of Ground, & erected thereon the Buildings necessary & proper for their religious Worship. And whereas many of their Number at the Close of the late War, return’d to New York, Charleston, & elsewhere, their Homes (which they had been exiled from & obliged to leave on account of their Attachment to American Measures) leaving the remaining few of their Religion here, burthen’d with a considerable Charge consequent from so great an Undertaking. And whereas the present Congregation, after expending all the Subscriptions, Loans, Gifts &a. made the Society by themselves, & the generous Patrons of their religious Intentions to the Amount of at least £ 2200 were obliged to borrow Money to finish the Building & contract other Debts that is now not only pressingly claim’d but a Judgment will actually be obtained against their house of Worship, which must be sold unless they are speedily enabled to pay the sum of about £ 800—And which from a variety of delicate & distressing Causes they are wholly unable to raise among themselves. They are therefore under the necessity of earnestly soliciting from their worthy fellow Citizens of every religious Denomination, their worshipping Almighty God in a way & manner different from other religious Societies, [will] never deter the enlightened Citizens of Philadelphia, from generously subscribing towards the preservation of a religious house of Worship. The subscription paper will be enrolled in the Archives of their Congregation, that their Posterity may know, & gratefully remember the liberal Supporters of their religious Society. To the Humane, Charitable, and well-dispos’d People