- First name
- David
- Last name
- Pallache
- Date of Birth
- 1598
- Date of Death
- 1650
- Born in
- Fez
- Died in
- Amsterdam
David Pallache worked in Amsterdam and in the port city of Salé ransoming Dutch prisoners (cf. Garcia-Arenal, 2007, p. 105). He regularly correspondended on those affairs with the representatives of the States General in 1626 and 1627. See: NNBW, vol. 5, col. 422. On 29 June 1634, the Jewish-Moroccan merchant signed a legal document before the notary public Daniel Bredan in Amsterdam. It is indicated in this deed that, in an effort to clear some of his debts, Pallache decided to transfer de Coningh David (‘the King David’)—in all probability a fluit or fluitschip, a flyboat mainly for the transport of bulk goods—with its complete cargo (by then still on its way home from the port of Salé) to Michael d'Espinosa and two freighters, Pieter and Wijnant Woltrincx (cf. Spinoza, mercator & autodidactus, p. 53, b).
Pallache was burried at Beth Haim cemetery.