On November 3, 1761, George III "conveyed a certain half lot of land in Holland Tything, Percival Ward, to David Truan."

[2] A memorial, in the Oglethorpe Avenue median, marks the burial ground (known as Bull Street Cemetery) today, with a plaque stating: "Original 1733 burial plot allotted by James Edward Oglethorpe to the Savannah Jewish Community".

Levi Sheftall's father, Benjamin, arrived in Savannah from London in 1733 on a ship with other European Jews.

[3] When Benjamin Sheftall died in 1765, he was the first to be interred in a new cemetery[4] that Levi reserved on a 25-by-40-foot plot of land, surrounded by a wall.

[7] The Mordecai Sheftall Cemetery, founded by Levi's brother for Savannah's Jewish community, is located across the street.