[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Sale of Real Estate broadside describing property belonging to Susan Santous Dubreuil, the widow of St. Louis pioneer Louis Chauvet Dubreuil. St. Louis, 20 June 1826.

Letterpress broadside, 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 in. Signed in type by commissioners appointed by the Circuit Court of the county of St. Louis. Docketed in ink on verso by Sheriff Jonathan K. Walker certifying that he posted "copies of the within advertisement at least twenty days before the day of the sale...."

"The undersigned commissioners...will expose to PUBLIC SALE, in pursuance of said appointment and order of said court, the following VALUABLE REAL ESTATE, Late the property of Susan Santou Dubreuil...." The broadside goes on to identify the properties to be sold, including "A lot of ground, fronting 87 feet on Church-street...Another lot, fronting 50 feet on said Church-street...Third, another lot of 48 feet on said Church-street... [bound] northwardly by lot of Francis Chouteau....The sale will commence on the premises aforesaid, on Monday the 24th day of July...."

Louis Chauvet Dubreuil (1736-1794) was born in Rochelle, France, where his father was an attorney for the king. According to Paul Beckwith's "Creoles of St. Louis" (St. Louis, 1893), Dubreuil came to St. Louis in 1765, the year after the city's founding, and married Susanne Santous (sometimes Susanne de Saintous de Bayonne), daughter of John Santous and Sabada Tuyaret, in 1772. Dubreuil was a prominent and influential figure in early St. Louis, as well as a prosperous trader. When he died in 1794, he left behind his wife, two sons, and nine daughters. Susanne Santous Dubreuil (1755-1825) died thirty years later in 1825, the year prior to this notice of the sale of her "Valuable Real Estate."

[WESTERN AMERICANA]. Sale of Real Estate broadside describing property belonging to Susan Santous Dubreuil, the widow of St. Louis pioneer Louis Chauvet Dubreuil. St. Louis, 20 June 1826.