Discontented planters join d'Ogeron from the other…
1675 CE
Discontented planters join d'Ogeron from the other French islands, and within two or three years there are two thousand French colonists in Western Hispaniola leading settled lives as planters and employing a growing number of enslaved Africans.
Although d'Ogeron will never succeed in attracting anything like his hoped-for twelve thousand annual colonists to St. Domingue, he has opened a genuine immigration movement toward the colony from France.
He has also attracted all the French rovers from the pirate stronghold of Port Royal and has concentrated them in his own stronghold of Tortuga.
D'Ogeron has by 1675 established his colony, which he calls Saint-Domingue (as opposed to the Spanish name for their side of the island, Santo Domingo) and, with war imminent, d'Ogeron now has a ready-made force of privateers.
Jacques Nepreu de Pouançay succeeds d'Ogeron as governor during 1675.