Ojeda and Vespucci come to Aquin

History. Christopher Columbus anchored in the port of Aquin in 1494: the natives of the country called this place Yaquimo. Alfonse Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci also came there on 5 September 1499, after the famous expedition that deprived Columbus of the honor of giving his name to the new world he had discovered. They returned there in 1502, but by then Amerigo Vespucci, having quarreled with Ojeda, had had him put in irons. The Spaniards built a town there, which they named Villa nueva de Yaquimo and which was nicknamed Port du Brésil, because of the great quantity of brazilwood then found there. In 1610 this town had already been abandoned by them. Around 1660 the buccaneers went to settle there, and their pronunciation made of it Aquin. They then founded the bourg of Aquin, about a lieue and a half from the present town. This first bourg was situated on the left bank of the river of Aquin; it was transferred in 1714 to the place known today as Vieux Bourg, because in 1804 the Haitian government ordered its transfer to the present town, situated at the old landing place of Aquin…

Rouzier tells this under the entry Aquin.