Letters, 1787, 1789.

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Letters, 1787, 1789.

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Letter, May 19, 1787 to E. Dutilh, French merchant in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from Kaskaskia, Illinois Territory, concerns seizure of property and his uncle's debt; letter, May 13, 1789, from Philadelphia to his brother, a candlemaker in Paris, discusses his arrangements for passage to France.

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Geoffroy, A.

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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...