jun 3, 1796 - Denied entry to PR

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For the sale of his lands, the duke sent a new attorney to Puerto Rico, the Valencian Don Ignacio Viaplana, seeking support for his stay and the efforts of Don Diego Gardoquí. We do not know the precise actions of this new agent, neither for sale operations nor for signaling new lands to the Duke.

The only concrete novelty around this time was the establishment of two Frenchmen, coming from Haiti, as settlers in the Duke's lands: Don Juan Bautista Andrés Ledoux and Don John Lawrence (Lorenzo Juan) Legier, seneschal de Kercado.

The settlement of these two colonists, who had emigrated to the United States due to the Haitian revolts, was not without incident. In the first place, Governor Castro, given the warlike circumstances, did not allow them to enter Puerto Rico (June 3, 1796) and they were forced to land on the island of Santo Tomás with their ship, relatives, workers, and 59 slaves, plus the pertinent agricultural utensils.

The governor don Ramon de Castro, given the warlike circumstances, did not allow them entry into the bay of San Juan (3 jun 1796) and they were forced to anchor in the island of Santo Tomas with their ship loaded with 59 slaves, free workers and their families, and more relevant agricultural ustensils.

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