[2] Josiah Pardo was one of the first rabbis who settled in the New World and a pioneer of many Jewish communal and educational institutions in the Western Hemisphere.
[5] Josiah was a teacher at the Yesiba de los Pintos in Rotterdam, which was transferred to Amsterdam in 1669, and was also Hakham of the Honen Dallim benevolent society.
[9] Josiah Pardo's later fate and his date of death were unknown until his gravestone was identified in 2008 at the historical Jewish cemetery of Port Royal in Hunts Bay.
Em 17 de elul de 5444" ("Famous our teacher, Rabbi Yosiau [ben] David, the head of the Rabbinical court of this sacred community, who called by the Lord on 17th of Elul 5444") and then in Hebrew quotes 2 Kings 22:2 "Josiah did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the way of David his father and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left."
[7] Josiah Pardo's son, Saul Pardo (died in 1702), moved to New York where he was the first hazzan of the first New York Jewish Congregation Shearith Israel; however, later he returned to Curaçao to join his aunt Rachel Dovale, who was either Josiah’s sister-in-law or a half-sister from the first marriage of his father.