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The Le Maire Family Papers are made up of 325 letters and documents largely pertinent to this Dunkirk, France, family's coffee and cocoa plantation near Jérémie, St. Domingue. The collection focuses on the period immediately preceding the Haitian Revolution and years following the conflict, though a group of letters date from the period of the revolution. A significant portion relates to the Le Maire (or LeMaire) and interrelated Fockedey families' pursuit of compensation for lost plantation property, including enslaved laborers, according to French indemnity demands of 1825. The letters and documents are primarily those of Dominique Le Maire, his mother Mme. Vve. Le Maire, his sister Mme. Le Maire Fockedey, and his nephew Jean-Jacques Fockedey. A selection of others includes family and business relations, such as F. de Jonquieres (Jonquieres et Auge), Le Cointe & Company, John Boccalin, Flabeau Cavailler, Christophe Le Maire, Forcade Le Maire, Guillaume Le Maire, Jacques Le Maire, and Louis Le Maire.

The Le Maire Family Papers are made up of 325 letters and documents largely pertinent to the Dunkirk family's coffee and cocoa plantation near Jérémie, St. Domingue, and to family finances. The collection focuses on the period immediately preceding the Haitian Revolution and years following the conflict, though a group of letters date from the period of the revolution. A significant portion relates to the Le Maire (or LeMaire) and interrelated Fockedey families' pursuit of compensation for lost plantation property, including enslaved laborers, according to French indemnity demands of 1825.

The letters and documents are primarily those of Dominique Le Maire, his mother Mme. Vve. Le Maire, his sister Mme. Le Maire Fockedey, and his nephew Jean-Jacques Fockedey. A selection of others includes family and business relations, such as F. de Jonquieres (Jonquieres et Auge), Le Cointe & Company, John Boccalin, Flabeau Cavailler, Christophe Le Maire, Forcade Le Maire, Guillaume Le Maire, Jacques Le Maire, and Louis Le Maire.

Please see the box and folder listing for details about each file in the Le Maire Family Papers.

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."