Some of the later projects are even more interesting. About the year 1749 Marshal _de_ Saxe¹ contemplated erecting a Jewish state in South America of which he would be King. “... We have only meagre accounts of this scheme; I am unable even to say whether he had abandoned it prior to his death....”² ¹ Hermann-Maurice (1696‒1750) [Moritz _von_ Sachsen], Comte _de_ Saxe, Marshal of France, was the illegitimate son of Friedrich August (1670‒1733) the First, Elector of Saxony (1694‒1733), who reigned over Poland (1697‒1733) as August the Second [the Strong]; and Maria Aurora (1668‒1728) Gräfin _von_ Königsmark. His father’s legitimate son (1696‒1763), who succeeded to both dignities as Friedrich August the Second, Elector of Saxony, and as August the Third, King of Poland (1733‒1763), was the father of Maria Josepha, the wife of the Dauphin Louis (1729‒1765), and mother of that unfortunate Monarch, Louis XVI. ♦(1774‒1792) of France. ♦ “(1774‒1792)” should be “(1754‒1792)” ² _Early American Zionist Projects_, by Max. J. Kohler, A.M., LL.B., in Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, 1900, No. 8 _pp._ 76‒79. The Margravine of Anspach¹ tells us in her anecdotes about him, that “He took a fancy to become a king: and on looking around..., as he found all the thrones occupied, he cast his eyes upon that nation which for seventeen hundred years had neither sovereign nor country; which was everywhere dispersed, and everywhere a stranger.... This extraordinary project occupied his attention for a considerable time. It is not known how far the Jews co-operated with him, nor to what point their negotiations were carried; nor was his plan ever developed: but the project was well known to the world, and his friends sometimes even joked with him on the subject.”² ¹ Elizabeth (1750‒1828), youngest daughter of the fourth Earl of Berkeley, K.T. (1715(6)‒1755), who in 1767 married William Craven (1738‒1791), afterwards the sixth Baron Craven. In the month following his death, she espoused the Margrave of Anspach (_ob._ 1806). ² _Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach._ Written by Herself ... London: ... 1826. Vol. ii., _pp._ 132‒133. John Perceval (1711‒1770), the second Earl of Egmont, when scarce a man, had a scheme of assembling the Jews, and making himself their King.¹ ¹ Note by Lord Holland (1773‒1840) in _Memoirs of the Reign of King George II._ (1683‒1760), by Horace Walpole (1717‒1797) ... London ... 1847. Vol. i., second edition, _p._ 35. Hardly was the constitution of Pennsylvania of September 28th, 1776, adopted.... A German Jew, whose name and domicile are not mentioned, forwarded a letter to the President of the Continental Congress ... that a number of German Jews had the intention of settling in America.... Let the conditions be stated to us, gracious President....¹