EARLY GOVERNORS OF SAINT-DOMINGUE

Spain formally ceded the western portion of Hispaniola (very close t the present borders of Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in the Treaty of Ryswick on September 20, 1697.

However, the French had de facto rule of the area from at least 1659 when they established the first governorship of the region. Below is a list of the early governors of Saint-Domingue.

The book and page of where I found the data is listed behind the name if I have it recorded.

• 1640 -- Levasseur (Sir Spencer St. John, p. 31)
• 1659 -- Jeremie Deschamps (Heinl, p. 17)
• 1660 -- 1675 Bernard d'Orgeron
• 1675 -- 1682 Jacques Nepreu de Pouancey (Heinl, p. 19)
• 1681: Estimated total population: 6658 (Heinl)
• 1682 -- 1683 de Franquesnay (Heinl)
• 1683 -- January 1691 -- Pierre-Paul Tarin de Cussy
• 1691 -- 1703 -- Jean-Baptist du Casse
• 1738 -- de Fayet

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