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1712-04-25

Superior council of Le Cap orders lepers sent to La Tortue

Haitian

D’Ogeron died in Paris in 1676. He was succeeded by Monsieur de Pouancey, who fortified the town of Cap-français. He died in 1681. Monsieur Franquesney, lieutenant of the king, replaced him, then Monsieur de Cussy in 1683, who abandoned the Tortue and gave all his care to the establishments of the mainland. He resolved to seize Santiago in order to give these filibusters something to do. In 1689 he defeated the Spaniards there, took their town, which he destroyed, and withdrew. The lair of the filibusters became the refuge of the lepers of the colony of St-Domingue: the superior council of the Cap, seeing the number of these unfortunates grow from day to day, issued on 25 April 1712 an order directing the transport of the “lepers” to the Tortue.

Rouzier tells this under the entry TORTUE (la).

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 200 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 200