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Theophilus Cazenove, or Theophile Cazenove (13 October 1740 – 6 March 1811), was a Dutch financier and one of the agents of the Holland Land Company. == Life and career == He was born in Amsterdam, as the son of Théophile Cazenove and Marie de Rapin-Thoyras, French/Swiss Huguenots.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Huguenot Society FMCV - Documents relating to the Hugenot Emigration )〕 His father was a merchant and banker in Bordeaux, Saint Petersburg, Archangelsk, Stockholm and the West-Indies. In 1759 he lost four ships loaded with sugar and coffee, which were taken by a Bristol privateer, on their way back.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Miscellaneous Correspondence, Containing a Variety of Subjects, Relative to ... - Benjamin Martin - Google Boeken )〕 In 1760 he gave up his business and his sons Charles and Theophile stepped in the company. In 1763, Theophile married Margaretha Helena van Jever, the daughter of a tradesman in Russia, and a member of the vroedschap. Cazenove spent his early career in commercial transactions in France and Russia, but went broke in 1770. In the same year, his portrait was painted by Jean-Baptiste Perronneau.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Photographes en Rhône-Alpes::Chambre de Commerce de Lyon ; Musée des Arts décoratifs : J. -B. Perronneau, 1715-1783 ; Portrait au pastel de Théophile de Cazenove. )〕〔http://www.pastellists.com/Genealogies/Cazenove.pdf〕 After the death of his father-in-law he was involved in a plantation in Surinam. In 1788 he collaborated with Étienne Clavière and Jacques Pierre Brissot, who both shipped in for the United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New Travels in the United States of America )〕 In November 1789 Cazenove was retained by Pieter Stadnitski to travel to the United States to act as an investment agent for Stadnitski and other Dutch investors (Nicolaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, Pieter & Christiaen Van Eeghen, and Ten Cate & Vollenhoven).〔http://stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl/archieven/archiefbank/overzicht/333.nl.html〕〔http://www.onserfdeel.be/nl/uit_archief_detail.asp?artikel_id=14060〕 Casenove settled in at Market Street (Philadelphia), where he dealt with Robert Morris (financier); his fellow-traveller Gerrit Boon later went north. Boon believed that harvesting maple syrup could be a year-round activity, so slavery on the sugar plantations could be avoided. In 1792 Cazenove invested his clients' money, at first in development bonds issued by the new states and the federal government, after Alexander Hamilton promised to fully pay the debt. Another venture included investing in large tracts of undeveloped land in Genesee County, New York, which included the Holland Purchase.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The great American land bubble )〕 In order to implement these large and difficult purchases (sometimes complicated by the claims of Indians), he employed the advisory services of Hamilton and later Aaron Burr. Cazenove lived well as a "grand seigneur" and was known for his extreme carelessness.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Theophilus Cazenove Biography )〕 His business dealings in maple syrup and canals were not particularly successful and the investors barely made any profit, even losing money in the Pennsylvania land dealings which he organized with James Wilson. He was also hard pressed to account for funds that were under his control. Around those days he helped his cousin from Geneva to settle in Philadelphia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ArchiveGrid : Papers, 1791-1852,. )〕 Alexander Baring wrote: ‘Cazenove is a sad dirty fellow and does all the mischief he can’.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bijdragen en Mededelingen van het Historisch Genootschap )〕 In 1798 he hired Joseph Ellicott〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buffalo 1600-1799 )〕 but Paolo Busti became his successor. In 1799, Cazenove returned to Europe even though he had become an American citizen in 1794. Casanove went to Amsterdam, where he started to archive purchase of land for the financiers. He left the employment of the Dutch investors in 1802 and sought a position under Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, who he had met in Philadelphia in 1795, when also Talleyrand invested in land purchase.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Full text of "Cazenove journal, 1794 : a record of the journey of Theophile Cazenove through New Jersey and Pennsylvania" )〕 Cazenove died in Paris in the Rue du Bac.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Theophilus Cazenove」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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