Copy of the petition of Protestant Citizens, Proprietors and inhabitants of the French division of the island of Saint Martin, to His Majesty Louis Philippe, King of the French

Many of the petitioners were encouraged to settle in the colony having been assured of their civil and religious liberties as French subjects. However, after the revolution of 1793 many were displaced into exile and did not return to their homeland until the anarchy had subsided. Revolution also led...

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