Identity elements
Name and location of repository
Level of description
File
Title
Haiti: Jean-Pierre Boyer and His Presidency - Original Manuscripts
Date(s)
- 1808 - 1825 (Creation)
Extent
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
"Group of 7 documents relating to Jean-Pierre Boyer and his Presidency. Vp, 1808-25.
Jean-Pierre Boyer was the longest-tenured Haitian Leader of his era, serving as president from 1818 to 1843. Under his rule, the competing northern and southern parts of Haiti were united, and Spanish Haiti (now the Dominican Republic) was annexed.
This lot includes: Receipt for the sale of a horse to General Bazelais, possibly signed by Boyer as a lieutenant colonel, 4 July 1808, and then signed over on verso by Bazelais to General Delva, 1809 Receipt signed by General Boyer to Madame Daran for a horse, 24 October 1811 Pair of documents regarding a requisition submitted by C. Babeuf, one endorsed with General Boyer's signature and the other by President Petion, 15 April 1815 Pair of documents signed by Joseph Latortue in the northern part of Haiti, the first as a baron while the north was still an independent kingdom, the second as administrator under Boyer's united Haiti, 26 April 1817 and 11 February 1823 Receipt on official letterhead signed by President Boyer, issued to General Benjamin Noel for a house purchased from the state, 16 July 1825." -Libreria de Antano, Buenos Ayres