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1691-11-11

JUDGMENT of the Conseil de Guerre, against two nègres and a White Indentured servant, Authors and Leaders of a Conspiracy

Haitian

We, the Chevalier de la Boulais, Lieutenant for the King on the Island of La Tortue and Coast of Saint-Domingue, having assembled all the Officers and held the Conseil de Guerre in the customary manner, and having read to them the depositions and confrontations and recollection of the accused, and having taken their opinions; we, by virtue of the power given to us by His Majesty, with the opinion of the said Officers, have condemned and do condemn, namely, the two nègres to be burned alive, as being accused and convicted of the crime of lese majesty; and with regard to Louis Blaise, White, we have condemned him, for lack of an Executioner, to have his head broken, and then his body to be thrown into the fire, to be burned and consumed there. GIVEN at the Savanne of the late M. le Marquand, this eleventh day of November 1691, the Conseil de Guerre being in session. Signed DE LA BOULAIS.

We believe it will not be unwelcome to find here a summary of the Procedure and the facts.

Source  ·  p. act 00:401 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 1) (1784-1790), p. act 00:401