The dozen families who started it all ...
The first 12 Sephardic Jewish families to arrive
and settle on the Dutch colony of Curaçao in 1651:
Aboab
Aboab Cardoze
Chavis
De Leon
De Marchena
De Mesa
Henriquez Coutinho
Jesurun
La Parra
Oliveira
Pereira
Touro
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