8 - TURTLE ISLAND (CARIBBEAN). Governor Achille Marquis de CHASTENOYE (1703-1787). Nomination signed by his hand, 1 p large in-4, handwritten header "The Marquis of Chastenoye, Knight of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Louis - Governor of the Isle of Tortoise, the Cape and the northern part of the Isle of Santo Domingo", established in Cape Town on February 8, 1757, red wax seal with the Arms and countersignature of his secretary. The Marquis de Chastenoye appoints Sieur Lions as Major of the militia of the Saint-Louis district (the Tortoise Island was at the time the den of pirates, buccaneers and other buccaneers).

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