It happened in the city of Mlawa on six September, eighteen hundred and fifty nine, at ten o’clock in the morning came a Jew Ickiem Jakub [Yitzhak Yakov son of Yehudah Ha-Levy] Tachna who is a peddler living in Mlawa, age twenty nine, in presence with Levin Szmulowicz Landau, age seventy one, and Avram Bajlowicz, age forty seven, both teachers living in Mlawa, and they show us a child, male, telling me the child is born in Mlawa on five June, eighteen hundred and fifty nine of his wife Chany Lai [Channah Leah daughter of Moshe Tzvi], maiden name Cytryn, age twenty nine. The child was named after the religious ceremony Chaim Mendel [Chaim Mendel son of Yitzhak Yakov Ha-Levy]. The act was given to all witnesses to read and then was signed.
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