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A Bernard de Caceres is mentioned in the Calendars of State Papers 1661-68, as residing in the West Indies. One of the chief members of the Jewish congregation in Suriname, whose name is affixed to a special charter of privileges dated October 1, 1669, was Henrique de Caceres, and a Samuel de Caceres is spoken of in Curaçao, W. I., in the year 1692. In 1891, a Mr. Benjamin de Caceres officiated at Curaçao in the absence of a rabbi.
Persons bearing the name were living in 1902 in New York and Philadelphia. Miss Ida Caseres of Philadelphia claims descent from the Caceres who settled in Jamaica in the seventeenth century.
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