https://remotereference.librarycompany.org/files/original/1dabba79b573cd0a86f516a5a59ed608.pdf fc7a5b524830e78c1eae546ae02ec420 https://remotereference.librarycompany.org/files/original/bddcdc3777eb5d1ccbd8909cb58d076e.pdf b016dc3f967ef9fffd8ec30cee060940 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource French West Indies collection [Box 1 Folder 7 & 8] Description An account of the resource Following in the footsteps of the Dutch and British, French settlers arrived in the Caribbean in the 1630s and established trading ports on the islands of Saint-Domingue (later Hispaniola), Martinique, and Guadeloupe. The settlers, with the aid of indentured servants and later African slaves, cultivated numerous crops that were eventually exported to France. The French West India Company, established in 1664, was a private trading company that oversaw the trading of coffee, sugar, cotton, and indigo between France and her islands in the French West Indies. Philippe Buache was most likely the official cartographer of her royal highness, the Queen of France. In this capacity, he explored the West Indies with the goal of creating physical and geographical depictions of the French colonies and their environs. The French West India Company papers span from 1712 to 1757 and were written primarily in French. They consist mainly of correspondence sent from merchants in the French West Indies and the geographical writings of cartographer Philippe Buache. The papers offer insight into the geography and trade of the West Indies in the 18th century; Buache also wrote about the geography of Australia and Antarctica. Most of the letters were apparently captured by an English privateer during the English-French War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748), and never reached their destination but were probably carried into some part of the English colonies in America Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Buache, Phillipe, 1700-1733, and others (Creator) Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Historical Society of Pennsylvania <a href="https://discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-0219">https://discover.hsp.org/Record/ead-0219</a> Language A language of the resource French Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0219 Barker-Patrick