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This vellum-bound volume contains copies of testimonies, depositions, legal opinions, accounts, and extracts, dating between 1729 and 1744, pertinent to the sale of a St. Domingue sugar plantation by Pierre de Camper to Louis Felix Lescarmoutier. These copies were made circa 1744 and are attested at the conclusion by notaries Moreau and Bugard, as well as Laurent de Sartre on February 16, 1744. The plantation, with as many as 67 enslaved laborers, was valued at between 25,000 and 30,000 livres per year. Its selling price was 182,000 livres, but Lescarmoutier apparently only ever paid around half that amount.

This vellum-bound volume contains copies of testimonies, depositions, legal opinions, accounts, and extracts, dating between 1729 and 1744, pertinent to the sale of a St. Domingue sugar plantation by Pierre de Camper to Louis Felix Lescarmoutier. These copies were made circa 1744 and are attested at the conclusion by notaries Moreau and Bugard, as well as Laurent de Sartre on February 16, 1744. The plantation, with as many as 67 enslaved laborers, was valued at between 25,000 and 30,000 livres per year. Its selling price was 182,000 livres, but Lescarmoutier apparently only ever paid around half that amount.

The volume contains 173 numbered pages; pages 1-6 are not present. The manuscript cover title is "S. Domingue Succession de M. De Cam[per] Procés De M. Lescarmotis."