SAINT-DOMINGUE. Louis-Narcisse BAUDRY DES LOZIÈRES (1751-1841). Partially autograph P.S., Port-au-Prince May-July 1777; 1 page and a quarter in-fol. (wetness and small lacks on one edge with loss of a few letters, skilful restorations). Slave rental in Saint-Domingue, by the author of Voyage à la Louisiane. Slave leasing agreement between Jean-François Mottet de Fontbelle and Baudry des Lozières. This lease mentions the first name, ethnicity and age of 12 slaves, including 7 "made in the country": "1° Bastien, of Mandingo nation, aged about twenty-two. 2° Vincent of the same nation and age. 3° Blaise of [the same] nation, aged about eighteen. 4° Dominique, of Malimbe nation, aged about twenty-three [...]. 7° Victoire, of Mayombe nation, aged about eighteen. These five Negroes and two Negresses are made in the country and have been estimated [amicably] between me Jean François Mottet de Fontbelle lessor and me Baudry lessee at the sum of two thousand five hundred livres per [head]". The 5 others, from the Aouya, Arada or Nago nations, who have just arrived in the colony, are estimated at 1,850 livres each. Baudry undertakes to pay Mottet 300 livres per year for each of the first seven, and "only one hundred livres this first year of the lease for each head of the last five Negroes, André, Philippe, Thomas, Bertrand and Antoine who are not yet in the country, and as for the second year of this lease the farm of each of these last five Negroes will be at the rate of two hundred livres". He adds: "I am also obliged to feed, medicate, clothe and treat all the said slaves as a good father of the family, and to answer for their mortality, crippling and marooning on the basis of the estimate fixed and agreed above"... This lease is completed by 3 codicils dated June 29, July 13 and October 5, 1777, concerning the reception of 11 new slaves supplied by Mottet de Fontbelle to Baudry. [Owner in Léogane and Port-au-Prince, Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières was also a lawyer on the Cap-Français High Council. Opposed to the abolition of slavery, he left Saint-Domingue in 1792 and settled in the United States. Returning to France in 1798, he became Navy historiographer and then honorary maréchal de camp. He wrote a Voyage à la Louisiane followed by a Second voyage à la Louisiane, published in 1802 and 1803 respectively].