Description of a plantation, situated at Petit St. Louis, near Port-de-Paix, in the northern part of Hispaniola [electronic resource] : with all the buildings, belonging to the same and necessary to carry on the cultivation of such plantation : now offered to be exchanged, by J.B. & L. Samoual, proprietors, for goods, principally East-India, and partly public papers on St. Domingo, properly certified and signed by the public functionaries, and approved by the general in chief, Toussaint.

[Boston? : s.n., 1797?]

English

1 online resource (12 p., [2] leaves of plates (fold.)) : map.

Place of publication suggested by Evans. Dated 1796 by Evans; but Toussaint L'Ouverture was named general-in-chief in 1797.
Plate has caption: Plan of the plantation of M. Samoual situated in the district of the River Bare at Port St Louis of the north surveyed by us the 17th. Octr. 1785. Naze King's surveyor.
Reproduction of the original from the Boston Public Library.
"This beautiful plantation, a plan of which is annexed, was surveyed in 1785, by the King's surveyor: and the following explanatory observations are the substance of a procès-verbal, signed by a number of respectable planters, whose property lies contiguous to it. The certificate of it, translated in the English language, together with the French original of it, shall be exhibited to any gentleman who may propose becoming a purchaser."

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