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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Michel Bégon papers, 1684-1685</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Bégon, Michel.</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Letter (1684 November 22) from Bégon to the Superior General of the Capuchin Missionaries in Saint-Domingue (Haiti), discussing death and illness among the missionaries, distribution and support of missionaries throughout the island, registration of baptisms, marriages, and deaths, and measures taken regarding innkeepers, public offenders, workers, and slaves; report (1685 March 22) by Bégon to the King of France concerning fortifications at Martinique; report (undated) by Bégon to the King of France relating to missionary activity and the sugar trade; and watercolor drawing (undated) of a cart for hauling small boats.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Eighteenth century manuscript copy. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>French administrator in several colonial posts.  Born 1638; died 1710.</note>
  <note>Collection material in French.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Capuchins</namePart>
    </name>
    <geographic>Haiti</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Carriages and carts</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Catholic Church</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Missions</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>Catholic Church</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Missions</topic>
    <geographic>Haiti</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Criminals</topic>
    <geographic>Haiti</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Employees</topic>
    <geographic>Haiti</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Fortification</topic>
    <geographic>Martinique</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Hotelkeepers</topic>
    <geographic>Haiti</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Missionaries</topic>
    <geographic>Haiti</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Registers of births, etc</topic>
    <geographic>Haiti</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slaves</topic>
    <geographic>Haiti</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sugar trade</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>France</geographic>
    <topic>Colonies</topic>
    <geographic>America</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Haiti</geographic>
    <topic>Church history</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Martinique</geographic>
    <topic>Defenses</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Colonial administrators</occupation>
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