Jean-Baptiste Belley

Jean-Baptiste Belley , born on July 1st 1746 or 1747 with Gorée (Senegal), deceased in 1798 with Saint-Domingue, black deputy of the department of the north of Santo Domingo to the national Convention and the the Council of the Five hundred.

Jean-Baptiste Belley says Mars was sold with the two years age to a slave trader making veil towards Saint-Domingue. He repurchased his freedom by his trade, according to his own remarks, which the Haitian historian Thomas Madiou reports. The date of its birth and that of its death are dubious. However, he does not certainly die in 1798, because he is made stop and to imprison with the fortress of Belle-Île-en-Mer in France and is there still prisoner in 1805 when he writes a letter with Isaac Louverture, wire of All Saints' day Louverture, around this date there. However, in the Public records of Haiti, appears in dated February 2nd, 1806, a birth certificate of certain Jeangile Mars, born on October 2nd, 1805 whose father is Mars, born in 1746. This date coinciding with the supposed date of the birth of Jean Belley Baptist. Moreover, it is advisable to recall that before him, the patronym “Mars” was unknown in the island of Domingue Saint, according to Dr. Jean Price Mars celebrates Haitian historian, of which he is the ancêtre.a to read the bond of the genealogical association of interesting Haiti.tres.

National mandates

Appointed Santo Domingo with the national Convention from September 24th, 1793 to October 26th, 1795, then with the Council of the Five hundred

Bonds external

Association of Genealogy of Haiti
Portrait off Jean-Baptiste Belley

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