Davis, Darnell. Notes on the History of the Jews of Barbados. “…I presume, from Holland, when our trade in a manner centered there, and I have always unerstood that the bulk of them were of Portuguese origin; which is the highest order among them; and who in London, neither unite in the same synagogue or burial grounds; here, however, they must coalesce, from paucity of numbers” (Davis 129).