SAINT-DOMINGUE. - PEINIER (Louis-Antoine Thomassin... Lot 50

SAINT-DOMINGUE. - PEINIER (Louis-Antoine Thomassin de) and around. Set of about 30 letters and pieces. Island of Saint-Domingue, June-November 1790. THE COUNT OF PEINIER, GOVERNOR GENERAL OF SAINT-DOMINGUE. The son of a steward of Martinique and Guadeloupe, himself a former sailor who had served under Bailiff de Suffren, Louis-Antoine de Thomassin, Comte de Peinier (1731-1809), was appointed governor general of Saint-Dominque in July 1789. At the end of July 1790, he had the so-called assembly of Saint-Marc dissolved. This assembly was composed mainly of white colonists who were not very open to revolutionary advances and who, in favor of the continuation of slavery, were openly secessionist. Faced with the hostility of these colonists and fed up with the insurrectionary situation in the colony, the Count of Peinier finally left Saint-Domingue in early 1791. - PEINIER (Louis-Antoine Thomassin de). 4 minutes of circular letters (2 signed, 2 handwritten) to municipal officers, commanders, or churchwardens of the island. Concerning "the continuation or formation of a new colonial assembly" (Port-au-Prince, July 15, 1790), "the new insurrection that threatens the entire colony" (s.l., November 2, 1790, in 2 copies), "the convocation of a general assembly of the colony... [which] will bring about the reform of the abuses of which the colony believes it has reason to complain; ... will provide it with a solid constitution, and such that the happiness of all, and that of each individual in particular, will result..." (1790). - LABORIE. Autograph letter signed to the count of Peinier. Cape Town, June 19, 1790. "I will not delay any longer in informing you of my arrival at the Cape... When I expected to find the colony totally reassured and calmed by the decree of the National Assembly, I had the pain of finding it more agitated, more divided than ever on the decree itself. When I wished to use all my efforts to consolidate peace, I have the sorrow to see myself exposed to becoming a new stone of scandal by the position of Attorney General to which I was appointed the day before my arrival; I expect particular discontents, conflicts of powers..." - CORRESPONDENCE of 25 letters from municipal officers and churchwardens to Count de Peinier. Saint-Domingue, June-July 1790. Acknowledgments of receipt of placards of a decree of the Constituante to be posted, and of the mail of the governor general. The senders are stationed in different communes or parishes of the island: Artibonite, Bombarde, Les Cayes, La Croix-des-Bouquets, L'Arcahaie, Jacmel, Jérémie, Les Côteaux, La Marmelade, Le Borgne, Le Cap, Le Dondon, Le Fond-des-Nègres, Le Grand-Goave, Le Gros-Morne, Le Limbé, Le-Port-de-Paix, Limonade, Plaisance, Port-Salut, Saint-Louis, etc. - VERNEUIL et al. Manuscript copy of a letter addressed as churchwardens of the parish of Limonade, letter dated Limonade 18 August 1790.