Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 353

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(HAITI.) Group of documents relating to colonial Saint-Domingue and Santo Domingo. 7 printed and manuscript documents, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1748-98
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Includes: Marriage contract between Thomas Schomberg and Elizabeth Fouquere. 2 manuscript pages plus docketing on integral blank, signed by numerous witnesses; worn with worming, but text complete. Grand Anse, 22 February 1748 Memoir que fournit Pierre Longer . . . contre . . . Francois Michaux. 10 printed pages, 15 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches; moderate dampstaining and wear; uncut. Legal brief involving les Sieurs de Laumondiere and Geroult of Cap-Francais, as well as mercantile voyages to Newfoundland and Martinique. Le Havre, circa 1754 Decret de la Convention Nationale. 2 printed pages, 10 1/2 x 8 inches, plus integral blank; minor dampstaining, moderate wear. Suspends taxes on imports from the colonies. Paris, 11 September 1793 Three documents on the estate of M. Ferron of Jeremie. 10 manuscript pages, stitched together. Cap Dame Marie and Jeremie, 26 November Contract for sale of property on Jeremie. 3 manuscript pages, 12 x 7, on one folding sheet; browned, minor worming. The sale of waterfront land to American merchant William Edward Wells. Jeremie, 18 August 1798 Ordonnance du Roi, Concernant la Compagnie des Cadets gentils-hommes des Troupes des Colonies. 8 printed pages, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, on two folding sheets; full separation along one fold; uncut. Concerns wages and uniforms of cadets serving in the colonies. Paris, 10 August 1781 El Rey, a nombre del Marques del Socorro. . . . 3 printed pages, 12 x 8 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet, with final page completed in manuscript; minor foxing. Assigns revenues to the widow of the former Spanish governor of Hispaniola. San Yldefonso, 23 August 1788.