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1766-Dec.-30

1766-Dec.-30: Madame Lafory, a prominent resident of the Grande-Colline district near Fort-Dauphin, passed away on her plantation.

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1766-Dec.-30: Madame Lafory, a prominent resident of the Grande-Colline district near Fort-Dauphin, passed away on her plantation. Her death was documented in the colonial record to inform her peers and potential heirs of the vacancy of her estate. Fort-Dauphin, located in the north, was a strategic military and agricultural settlement where such deaths often had implications for local land management. This obituary reflects the mortality rates and social landscape of the white colonial elite in the 1760s.

Source  ·  HT-AFAM-1767-000003 Affiches Américaines, 7 Jan. 1767 / Bates: HT-AFAM-1767-000003