Moses da Costa Lindo (died April 26, 1774) was a an indigo merchant in London and then the American colony that became South Carolina.

^[0]He is a memebr of the Lindo family.

Lindo was a sworn broker of the Royal Exchange and was a descendant of one of the founding families of London's Sephardi community. He possessed a silver medal worn by sworn brokers of the Royal Exchange. It had the City of London arms, the City motto and the name of Moses da Costa Lindo on one side, and the the Royal Arms on the other. Members of the Lindo family were brokers from the 17th to the 19th centuries and there are five similar medals issued to them by the City of London in the Museum of London collection.

He was involved in the cochineal and indigo trade in London before moving to South Carolina in November 1756 and working in the indigo industry there. ^[0]His advertisements appeared in the "South Carolina Gazette" during 1756. He became a wealthy planter and slave-owner and ranked among the prominent merchants of Charleston. ^[0]

Lindo helped develop the indigo industry in the colony and it became one of the most important industries in prerevolutionary South Carolina.

^[0] In 1762 he was appointed "Surveyor and Inspector-General of Indigo, Drugs, and Dyes".

He resigned the office in 1772.

He did scientific experimentation with different dyes.

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Lundo corresponded with Emanuel Mendez da Costa, librarian of the Royal Society and one of the foremost naturalists of his day.

^[0]The "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" (liii.

238, paper 37) contains "An account of a New Die from the Berries of a Weed in South Carolina: in a letter from Mr. Moses Lindo dated at Charlestown, September 2, 1763, to Mr. Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Librarian of the Royal Society."

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Jonas Phillips worked off his passage to the U.S. as an indentured servant to Lindo. An item in the "South Carolina Gazette" (March 15, 1773) states that Lindo purchased a stone which he believed to be a topaz of immense size, and that he sent it to London by the Right Hon. Lord Charles Greville Montague to be presented to the Queen of England. ^[0]A number of Lindo's advertisements and of items concerning him in the "South Carolina Gazette" were collected by Rev. Barnett A. Elzas, and reprinted in the "Charleston News and Courier," Jan. 18, 1903 as A. Moses Lindo: A sketxh of the most prominet Jew in Charleston (Charlestown) in Provincial Days, Daggett Printing Co

Moses Lindo was a descendent of Isaac Lindo, one of the earliest Jewish brokers of London (1697).