Kitt, Salomon

Born 1744-1-1 in Zürich, died 1825 in North America (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz)

Family
Father: Martin, Hans, merchant. (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz)

Mother: Meier, Anna Margaretha (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz)

Wife: Pauzier, Sara from Geneve. (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz)

Timeline
1776 - Left Zürich after bankruptcy as a seller of local and European textiles. (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz)

1779 - Active in the merchant House of Kitt & Reinwald on St. Eustatius, supported by Iselin, Reinhard of Copenhagen. Together they ran the merchant House of Kitt, Iselin & co in St. Thomas and in Baltimore. (Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz) Kitt was probably working with Rheinwald, Frederick of Honcard in Switzerland. (British High Court of Admiralty)

1880 - Kitt expanded his activities, cooperating with the three Zurich silk fabric manufacturers Heinrich Tobler, Salomon Traxler, Frey & Pestalozzi and probably others. These companies sent their products via Amsterdam in consignment to House of Kitt & Reinwald. (Hans Conrad Peyer, Handel und Bank im alten Zürich, Zürich 1968, S. 177f)

Notes
More information here: https://www.louverture.ch/MATERIAL/SKLAVEREI/salomon.html and here: https://cooperaxion.ch/index.php?tablename=sklavenhandel&function=details&where_field=id&where_value=121