West Indies. 3 18th century documents. -... - Lot 212 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

West Indies. 3 18th century documents. - Achille de Cochart de Chastenoye (1703-1787), governor of Turtle Island. Signed document. Cape Town [Santo Domingo], February 8, 1757. 1 p. folio. Wax stamp on his arms. Two anchorages on the sides. Rare coin signed by Marquis Achille de Cochart de Chastenoye, "Governor of Isle de la Tortue, the Cape and the northern part of the Isle of Santo Domingo". Following the orders of the general, he appointed Mr. Lions, "boy major of the militias of the Saint-Louis district". For a long time, Turtle Island was a den of pirates, a bastion of buccaneers and buccaneers. - [Slavery]. Handwritten document. Paris, April 11, 1792. 1 p. folio. Slightly insulated edge. Period copy of a letter from the Minister of the Navy, signed for true copy. It relates to the pursuit of the captain who abandoned 200 slaves on a deserted coast. "Calmin, captain of the ship Emmanuel, was charged, Sir, last September by the municipality of Port-au-Prince, to transport to a deserted coast about 200 negroes whose colony it was deemed appropriate to purge; and after fraudulently landing these negroes in the Baye de Honduras, he disappeared with his ship [...]. The National Assembly has just decreed that he will be arrested and prosecuted. I therefore request you to have the most accurate search made for the person of this sailor; to have him put in prison [...]". - Handwritten recipe from the King's Prosecutor of St Pierre de la Martinique, giving the detailed account "of my gout and my recovery". St. Peter's, February 8, 1776. 4 pp. in-folio. Attached is a letter from the Director of Colonial Administration about a soldier who was released from the hospital at Fort Royal in 1809 and was taken prisoner of war by the English.