Dugas du Vallon family document, Unknown
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Summary
- Creator:
- Dugas family
- Date:
- Unknown
- Extent:
- 1 oversize_folders 1 document
- Language:
- French
- Preferred citation:
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Dugas Du Vallon family document, ms4245, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of a detailed inventory of: land owned in Saint-Domingue (present day Haiti), family papers, a list of revenues, debts in Saint-Domingue and France, and a list of property and assets, including enslaved people considered personal property of the family. Although the document is not specifically dated, it contains dates from 1793 and is believed to have originated after 1807, the year that Louis Rene Adrien Dugas de Vallon died.
The document is handwritten in French.
- Biographical / historical:
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The Dugas de Vallon family, a prominent plantation family from Saint-Domingue, immigrated to Washington, Georgia as refugees in the 1790s. Madame Louis Dugas ran the Boarding School for Select Young Ladies until 1810. Her son, Louis Alexander Dugas (1806-1898), was one of the founders of the Medical College of Georgia.
Access and use restrictions
- Preferred citation:
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Dugas Du Vallon family document, ms4245, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.