Santo Domingo Claims Commission: Minutes and Papers

T 81

1793-1834

This series incorporates the decisions of the committee of the Santo Domingo Claims Commission, together with the minutes, proceedings, etc, of the Council in the Colony during the British occupation. Pieces T 81/29 to T 81/156 consist of papers relating to individual claims. They include some claims made to the Martinique Regie Fund in respect of estates in Martinique, sequestrated during the British occupations of 1794 to 1802 and 1809 to 1814.

See also CO 245

Accounts of the occupation are in T 64

Other papers relating to refugees from Santo Domingo will be found in T 50

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In 1793, British military forces occupied much of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), the French-controlled part of the island of Santo Domingo. During the occupation, which lasted until December 1798, the British seized property, estates and slaves of absentee owners. Following the evacuation of Saint-Domingue, the British government resolved through a Treasury minute of 6th December 1798 to assist the proprietors of sequestrated estates and properties. The Santo Domingo Claims Commission was subsequently established to administer the claims of proprietors and their heirs. The Commission was abolished in 1831, when its functions were taken over by the American Loyalist Claims Commission.