Fontanges and Cambis sign a concordat with the freedmen after Borel’s defeat

The owner, a white colonist, was a genuine bandit. In 1792 he made an alliance with another bandit named Dumontellier. He set up two camps against the affranchis, one that he commanded himself, on his own habitation, the other on the Comon habitation, which Dumontellier commanded. Port-au-Prince sent him 300 men to reinforce him. He was beaten at the Petite-Rivière de l’Artibonite by the affranchis, with whom Fontanges and Cambis signed a concordat on 14 April. At the Môle, Borel gave himself up to every kind of crime. He had two whites, Mollet and Guiton, wealthy proprietors who were sailing to the United States in 1792, have their throats cut, and seized their treasures. After the departure of Caradeux, Borel came to replace him at Port-au-Prince, followed by his band of assassins, the scum of the adventurers of Saint-Domingue. Grimouard took him prisoner off Saint-Marc, in spite of his inviolability. Blanchelande set him at liberty, and he left the colony. He returned to le Cap the same year and was named one of the secretaries of the civil commission. He was seen again in 1793…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Borel.