Louis Rossignol de Belleanse (1746-1808)
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This white person has 1 related event in the database, listed at the bottom of this page.
- Identifier
- NJS-PER-02615
- Given Name
- Louis
- Family Name
- Rossignol de Belleanse
- Alternate Name
- Lewis R. Balleanse
- Birth Date
- 1746
- Death Date
- 1808
- Sex
- Male
- Occupation
- Landowning
- Biographical Description
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Louis Rossignol de Belleanse was a man of French descent who was born around 1746 in Saint Domingue, which is now Haiti. He owned a coffee plantation on the island in the area of Jeremie. He left the island during the Haitian Revolution and moved to New Jersey.
By 1804, he lived in Trenton with a relative of his, Jacques Philipe Rossignol de Grandmont, who was also a planter from Haiti. They soon moved together to Georgia, apparently with the goal of reestablishing themselves as planters there. Belleanse died in Savannah, Georgia, in 1808.
After Belleanse's death, the French government distributed compensation to former plantation owners who had fled Haiti and lost their plantations. His heirs received compensation for the plantation that had been confiscated from him by the Haitian revolutionaries. - Keywords
- white person
- enslaver
- Francophone
- Enslaver of
- Jack (b. 1770)
- Related Person
- Jacques Philipe Rossignol de Grandmont (1760-1809)
- References
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Plantation owners of St. Domingue (1789) - R Names. Domingino project by Dr. Oliver Gliech. https://www.domingino.de/stdomin/colons_r.htm.
This person is represented on the following page(s):
Find a Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/232554105 - Record Contributor
- Kate Jackson
- Linked Sources
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Author:
- Runaway ad for Jack, by Louis Rossignol de Belleanse (Runaway ad for Jack, by Louis Rossignol de Belleanse, "Twenty Dollars Reward," Trenton Federalist, January 9, 1804, p. 3.)
- Linked Events
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Additional Participant in:
- 1803-12-20 Freedom Seeking: Jack (Role: Enslaver, Advertiser)
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