Joseph-François-de-Sales comte d'Oulry Ingrandes

While perusing Moreau de Saint-Méry's vast encyclopedia, we came across reference to yet another colon who wrote about the island's indigenous peoples. In this case, Joseph-François-de-Sales comte d'Oulry Ingrandes, is said to have composed a mémoires sur les coutumes et les cultes des naturels de Saint-Domingue that may have been lost. This author was also also affiliated with the Cercle des Philadelphes in the colony, and presumably followed and contributed to that scholarly organization's research and collection of indigenous antiquities. What surprised us, however, was this man's marriage to Anne-Barbe Buttet. Anne-Barbe Buttet, daughter of Louis-Marin Buttet, was a cousin of a mixed-race woman who married a Cangé and lived in the Bainet-Jacmel area in the 18th century. Saint-Domingue truly was a small world...