I'm making a last effort to get to the bottom of the stories of a Portuguese Jewish presence in Nijkerk before the Italiaander family came in 1709.-It seems clear that at least one Portuguese merchant was involved in the tobacco trade in Nijkerk in the 1630's, but nothing tells us that he lived there. He could have lived in Amsterdam, or even in Amersfoort where some years later there was a small Portuguese settlement.-A Jewish cemetery is said to have been established in 1650, reportedly Portuguese, but no evidence of the date, or of any Portuguese individuals involved. There are flat-lying stones in the Nijkerk Jewish cemetery that reportedly come from this cemetery, but I have no dates or names.-I had come up with the theory that the illusive Pieter Caesar Italiaen was a relative of the De Leons of Amsterdam, who were tobacco merchants who used the alias Italiaen. The relation to the Italiaanders seems non-existent. But I haven't even seen proof of a Pieter Caesar Italiaen being in Nijkerk...-No proof that the Pieter Caesar Italiaen on Long Island was from Nijkerk, nor that he was a Jew.-No idea where the Huis met de Bijenkorf story comes from.-I talked to Nechama Mayer-Hirsch years ago when I first started to investigate, she couldn't help me further.Ton Tielen, Marius Heemstra, anyone, is there anything out there that could shed some light? I'm about to just throw everything in the "myth" category.