BEGORRAT family Merchant in the ANTILLES. DEUX SÈVRES. CHARE - Lot 206

BEGORRAT family Merchant in the ANTILLES. DEUX SÈVRES. CHARENTE MARITIME - 17 Letters and documents: Correspondence and documents concerning the estate of the BEGORRAT Family, Emigrated to the Islands, at L'ARTIBONITE (ST DOMINGUE) in POINTE À PITRE: BORDEAUX 1788. Letter A.S. Pierre BEGORRAT, Négociant, to his mother: "I have large payments to make, I have an expedition in train for the Islands, which makes it impossible for me to be absent" - LA ROCHELLE (17) June 5, 1789. "The public outcry has awakened my mother-in-law to a succession that is said to have been open for a long time at Artibouate..." - PORT D'ESPAGNE (Antilles, Trinité island) 1790 - Letter signed V. BEGORRAT "4 months ago I formed a new Society with Mme Château, a Martiniquaise. If by chance you were in the drawing board to do some trading... payable in cotton" - Letter signed Victor BEGORRAT Year 7, to his sister ESPAGNOU DESZILLE at the Maison neuve de Cram near MAUZÉ in AUNIS: "Par l'occasion du Navire L'ÉLAN de BORDEAUX arrivé en Europe, vous avez du recevoir deux lettres de moi touchant mes prétentions...". - Letter A.S. ESPAGNOU à la Maison neuve près MAUZÉ (79) An 6; concerning the number of heirs of Pierre Martin BEGORRAT, to request the lifting of the sequestration and the restitution of property (Confiscation des Biens des Condamnés)... if the revolution had not taken away the sort of ease I enjoyed, I would send you some help...". - Information on BELLOQUIN who died on the Artibonite Island of St DOMINGUE (in 1700 in Havana, he was for a long time Consul of the French Nation.