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presence of the Governor-General to address the magistrat.
Frans Suell became a widower early. His wife died on May 20, 1723, leaving behind his surviving sons Henrich, Ernst and Niclas and daugh- ters Catharina Margaretha and Lovisa Maria. Through diligence and wise management in business, Suell became an increasingly respected and wealthy man. Like his grandfather Ernst Hindrich Stein, who ran
a tobacco factory for many years, Stein obtained on July 26, 1726 the privilege from the King to run a "tobacco factory", on the same day as businessman David Solscher and associates obtained a similar privilege. Suell ran his tobacco factory in his own property, number 341 - later known as the Crown Warehouse - on Adelgatan, and around 1759, his factory was combined with Solscher's and the following year, with the factory owned by businessman Mathias Morsing, who had obtained
a royal privilege on March 7, 1733. He leased in 1728 the Limhamn's lime quarry in Hyllie and in 1731 the brickworks in Lomma, both of
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