Manoel Wolf

In the continuous historical investigation there are shortage that tens of these, and is from the same beginning of the new colony, its origin, its culture, its economic interests, are related directly and very strongly to the Portuguese Jewish community Dutch e’migre’ (expelled) of Spain in 1492 and Portugal few years later (1497) with bases in Amsterdam, but also with Antwerp, Flanders, Avignon, London, Venice, the Moroccan Mediterranean coast and many other African or Asian points dedicated to the commerce. Based on thousand of documents, the today impossible one to hide or to ignore, of the commerce TOWARDS AND FROM the River of the Silver of aims of century XVI, all the S. XVII and S. XVIII is where I found the tracks. It is not difficult to imagine rich and the fabulous thing that it must essentially have been Colony of the Sacrament in S. XVIII. The best example is demonstrated indeed when fulfilling his first 70 years (1680 1750), is tried it to exchange, in 1750, by all the territory of the seven towns of the Eastern Jesuticas Missions.

To that date, a Papal Bula, a Real Instruction, two Treaties of Peace, an Armistice, a commercial Pact of Real Guarantee and several international agreements involve directly to which it is tried to present/display like a Portuguese intrusive town in Spanish territories and cave or nest of lusos smugglers, English and Dutch. In 1678, the Bula Romanus Pontifex de Innocent XI, the Instructions with 36 Art.s of D. Pedro runs from Portugal to D. Manoel Wolf for the foundation of the city, Provisional Treaty of Lisbon of 1681, Treated about Alliance and Guarantee between Portugal and France in 1696, Treated about Alfonsa (1701) of Peace, Commerce and Friendship signed by Felipe V new monarch Bourbon. In 1703, pressed Portugal by England he signs the Great Alliance with Holland, Austria, Prusia, Hannover, the Sacrum Empire and company/signature with England the Treaty of Metheum.