jan 1, 1789 - Returns to Saint-Domingue/Haiti; Owns Plantations

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During the French Revolution he went back to Saint-Domingue (he is on the list of plantation owners in 1789) where he married Marie-Louise Bobin 3 May 1791 in Croix-des-Bouquets. On the wedding registration he is qualified "viscount Le Sénéchal de Kercado".

According to a sequestration lifting document 22 Nov 1802, we know that the Le Senechal de Kercado family(ies) owned in Saint-Domingue: a house in Port-au-Prince, half of a sugar plantation (habitation Kercado) at Cul-de-Sac, 7/36 of a sugar plantation (habitation Noailles) at Cul-de-Sac, half of a cofee plantation at Grands-Bois, and 1/8 of 2 sugar plantations at Arcahaye.

We can read in Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la révolution de Saint-Domingue (Paris, 1819) "From the beginning of the action, detachments were sent to the homes of wealthier owners, forcing them to take part in combat. Her young husband, wealthy heir who was to embark the next day with his wife to the United States, was snatched from his home, and was the first fire in a fatal injury."

Actually the one who was "assassinated", as we can read otherwise, must be one cousin since "Lawrence Kercado" came to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1791, was in 1792 in Philadelphia (he was the owner of Chalkley Hall 1792-1794), where his son Gustave was born 31 July 1793, and was leaving in 1796 at Elizabeth, New Jersey, as he writes -in French- in a letter to Alexander Hamilton (Secretary of the Treasury). In that letter dated Philadelphia 6 June 1796 (Hamilton papers, Library of Congress), he states that he has given orders for his property in Saint-Domingue to be sold and that he wishes to go there to settle his affairs. He asks Hamilton to urge President Washington to grant him a Government commission which would assure him a safe passage to and from Saint-Domingue and suggests that he be named agent for obtaining the release of American sailors imprisoned by the British.

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