Black seaman, 'Negro of Hebrew Faith', who jumped ship at Newport News and came to North Carolina; found circumcised and conversant in Hebrew despite poor English, claimed to speak ten languages including Yiddish. Per Leonard Rogoff's 'Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina', noted by a Wilmington newspaper and the Durham Herald, became a celebrity in New York, and a local legend of a Black man entering the synagogue to read Torah persisted for a century. Almost certainly the same unnamed sailor already documented in hist_event 1683 (Goldsboro, NC clipping, Newport News desertion) and probably the same itinerant man reported elsewhere in this corpus under other spellings (Waltzkowitz, Wolskowicy, Muskowitz, Valikovitz) -- identity not settled by this worker.