(1747-1806) was born in Suriname to Isaac Cohen Nassy and Sarah Bueno de Mesquita. He is the author of “Historical Essay on the Colony of Surinam” (1788), “Observations on the cause, nature, and treatment of the epidemic disorder, prevalent in Philadelphia” (1793), and “Political-theological-moral letter on the Jews” (1798). He was also an important member of the Portuguese Zedek ve Shalom synagogue in Paramaribo. Although he lived most of his life in Suriname, he lived briefly in Philadelphia, where he attended Congregation Mikveh Israel, also known as KKMI. Shortly after he arrived in Philadelphia, a yellow fever epidemic broke out, and Nassy used his medical training and knowledge of the disease that he had gained in Suriname to tend to the sick. He was asked to join the American Philosophical Society.
Nassy was married twice, first to a woman named Esther who died in the 1789 smallpox epidemic in Suriname, and second to Rebecca de la Parra in 1799. He was buried in Jodensavanne.
