Background
Busti was born in Milan, Italy and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Busti was born in Milan, Italy and died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He spent his early years working in the banking industry in Amsterdam. Busti succeeded the first company agent, Theophilus Cazenove, who returned to Europe in 1799. He established the Holland Land Company Office in Batavia, New York and hired Joseph Ellicott as one of his land agents and surveyors.
The Town of Busti, New York in Chautauqua County is named after him.