SAINT-DOMINGUE. 3 P.S., Le Trou, Le Cap (Saint-Domingue),... - Lot 324 - Ader

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SAINT-DOMINGUE. 3 P.S., Le Trou, Le Cap (Saint-Domingue),... - Lot 324 - Ader
SAINT-DOMINGUE. 3 P.S., Le Trou, Le Cap (Saint-Domingue), 1777-1789; 3 pages small in-4. The home of Alexandre Dumas' great-uncle. [Born in 1716, Charles Davy de La Pailleterie settled in Saint-Domingue where he cultivated tobacco, sugar cane and indigo. Back in France, he set up a triangular trading company in 1760. Having given up this activity after two disappointing crossings, he returned to Saint-Domingue where he died in 1773, leaving a heavy estate. His daughter, Marie Anne Charlotte, inherited his properties which were then managed by her husband, Léon de Maulde. Charles was the brother of Alexandre Antoine Davy de La Pailleterie, the grandfather of Alexandre Dumas]. The first two documents are invoices for sugar signed by the manager of the dwelling, by Maunoury de Prémesnil: "Invoice for one barrel of tared sugar from the dwellings of M le comte de Maulde, loaded by M de Prémesnil on the ship the Sylvain, Capne Jean Morel of Dunkirk [...] at the address and consignment of M Elle Briansiaux, merchant at Dunkirk"... (Le Trou June 17, 1777). - Invoice for twenty barrels of white sugar [...] loaded by M de Prémesnil on the ship Le Basque, Capne Lermet [...] to the address & consignment of MM Antoine Defos & Cie merchants in Bordeaux"... (Le Trou June 16, 1783). The third is a bill of lading signed by a merchant ship captain: "I Chebaud captain & master, after God, of the ship named the St Honoré de Nantes, anchored at present in front of the French Cape [...] confess to have received [...] the following goods, numbered and marked [...], namely : Twenty-four barrels of Creole sugar [...] at the address & consignment of M Prosper Charret, merchant in Nantes..." (Le Cap April 5, 1789).
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