Collection, 1706-1937.

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Collection, 1706-1937.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122644877

Letters and documents representing some 2,000 individuals relate to a wide variety of subjects. Large groups of papers concern Philadelphia merchants of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and include correspondence, accounts, bills of lading, ships papers, etc. Firms represented are: Richard Ashhurst and Sons, which traded in dry goods primarily with Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi; Thomas Astley, trading with England, whose papers mostly pertain to land investments in western Pennsylvania; Andrew Clow and Company, with offices in Philadelphia and London, traded with England and Europe, here mostly with Rathbone and Benson, Liverpool; Dutilh and Wachsmuth and affiliate companies, trading mostly with the West Indies but also with Europe. There are account books representing a variety of businesses of Pennsylvania Germans, and also some court dockets and school exercise books. The bulk of this material consists of the records, 1840-1890, of Jonas Robinhold's dry good store, Port Clinton, PA; blotters, journals, and ledgers; also Jonas Robinhold justice of the peace docket books, 1845-1863; and Port Clinton tax collection records, 1872, Hiram Robinhold, Collector. Additional records include: Heidelberg Township accounts of supervisors, 1775-1836; Peter Hoffman ledger, 1817-1831 (labor); Aaron Keffer, ledger, 1845-1853; David Rinewald, linen merchant, daybook, 1797-1815; John Romich, lumber merchant, ledger, 1844-1888; William Weiler, dry goods merchant, ledger, 1851-1859; and others.

ca. 7000 items.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 6802319

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Dutilh and Wachsmuth.

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Rinewald, David.

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Wachsmuth, John Godfried, 1748-1828

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Romich, John.

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Dutilh, Stephen, 1732-1810.

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Dutilh, Etienne, 1748-1810

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Étienne Dutilh was born to Pierre and Marie Dutilh in Marsac (also known as Clairac), France in 1732. During the 1770s, Dutilh established himself as a merchant in London and Rotterdam before immigrating to Philadelphia in 1783. Several Dutilh family members remained in Europe to continue their mercantile business in places like Amsterdam and England. As a result, Étienne Dutilh had strong trading ties to Europe for the next decades. When he came to Philadelphia, Dutilh established the mercant...

Clow, Andrew and Company.

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Astley, Thomas, -1839

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Robinhold, Jonas.

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Unger, Claude

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Hoffman, Peter, 1950-

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Keffler, Aaron.

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Ashhurst, Richard and Sons.

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Weiln, William.

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Robinhold, Hiram.

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