[Petition of Remy Thiboult]

Slavery Collection, 1709-1864

1758-08-18

One-page petition submitted by Remy Thiboult regarding the discovery of a runaway slave belonging to Samuel Johnson of Rhode Island, on the Schooner Corsaire docked in the harbor of St. Pierre, Martinique.

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Mss Collection - Slavery Collection

Fugitive slaves--Martinique
Fugitive slaves--Rhode Island

Petitions

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Nouce Remy Thiboult, couseilleu dy Roy, Lieutenant General dur siege de ‘amiraute du Bourge S’t. Dierre de L’Isle Martinique, sertifious que le senault negrier anglais nomme La venuce der Rhode Island en la nouvelle angleterre commande par Samuel Johnson, an ete pris par Le ew. Jean Mathieu veyre Cap’ne dela Golette Corsaire la Minerve de Cette Isle, le douxe de cemois a Environ cent dix lieuere dans le […] Antigues, et Ensuite conduit en cette isle ou il a ete juge de bourre prise pau sentence de l’amiraute, en pay dequoy nous avons signe es deliver lepreseur certificate, jeeluy ecrit & couture signe par l’un des commis greffiers & seelle du seeau de lamiraute, au fort st. Pierre dela Martinique le dixhuitiemer aoust , , Trans: , , Begin Remy Thiboult, Counsellor to the King, Lieutenant General of the Office of the Admiralty, of St. Pierre, Martinique, certifies that the English negro servant named La Venuce of Rhode Island in New England, owned by Samuel Johnson, has taken for Lieutenant [?] Jean Matthieu […] captain of the Schooner Corsaire, in the port of the Isle, who found a stowaway chained to the […] and once inside the Island’s harbor where he was tried for […] and taken per his sentence to the Admiral, and […] our own signature, and delivered to the present certificate, […] wrote a counter signature for a clerk and sealed.