WILLIAM CONRAD SCHUTTE PAPERS, #3066, 1741-1844
Correspondence, deeds, personal and business accounts, promissory notes, wills, and
miscellaneous papers relating to Schutte, physician and planter of Haiti. The Schutte family
came to Portsmouth, Virginia, in the 1790s and subsequently lost their property in Haiti.
Papers include three petitions from shipowners to the official at Port au Prince in regard to
collecting from Schutte money due for the transport of slaves (1767, 1786); a letter to Schutte relating to a slave patient (1783); slave bills of sale,
including names and ages (1785); a widow's claim to a slave named Fidele (1788); the division
of slaves among inheritors and others (1818, 1822); a letter
expressing the difficulties in selling a female slave (1825); and a
copy of a letter written in St. Domingue at the beginning of the revolution, concerning the
slaves there (1793). Microfilm available.